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

Our tour group of 43 gathers at Il Cantico hotel near Vatican City, where I have a view from my balcony of ... I’m gazing up at Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. It’s like being wrapped ...

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

When the Vatican appointed the sculptor and architect Michelangelo to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica, he based it on the Greek ...

However from the 34th ballot onwards, the Conclave only votes between the two front ... Vatican tailors get to work on creating three Papal robes in small, medium and large. The new Pope is led into ...

The Cardinal Dean then calls the candidate to the front ... Sistine Chapel where he dons his new white robes and red slippers. The Pope is then presented to the crowds who have gathered in the ...

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 will remain hospitalized and will continue treatment for a respiratory infection, according to a Reuters report citing a Vatican spokesperson. Diagnostic tests apparently indicated ...