The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, only 50 of which survive today. In March, a rare roundup of these sketches ...

We’d just spent 2 weeks traveling through Spain before taking a ridiculously cheap flight from Seville to Pisa for 9 euros ...

The college witnesses a clash between Adeyemi, the front-runner in the voting, and Sister Shanumi, a nun who was just sent from Nigeria to Vatican City, at lunch on the ... him to the ground and ...

A new exhibition opening next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, explores the Italian ...

Pope Francis is set to feature in a documentary filmed in the Sistine Chapel about the universal ... library of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, they said in a statement.

The Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement”.Credit: Alamy While many visitors stand in the middle of the chapel’s floor, your neck will be less challenged and the view better ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State, making her essentially the governor of the 44-hectare (108-acre) territory in Rome that is home to the Catholic ...

Pope Francis has appointed Sister Raffaella Petrini, FSE, as president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and president of the Governorate of Vatican City State, the Vatican ...

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was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State, making her essentially the governor of the 44-hectare (108-acre) territory in Rome that is home to the Catholic Church. Petrini had ...