The secret conclave that elected Pope Leo head of the Catholic Church last May was interrupted when one of the 133 cardinals ...

VATICAN CITY — Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” is getting a facial, with restorers removing a chalky white film of salt that has accumulated over the Renaissance masterpiece since its last major ...

COMMENTARY: The Italian cardinal’s Ostpolitik diplomacy is considered a key to the collapse of European communism. It was nothing of the sort.

Inside St Peter’s Basilica, artists from the studio are restoring the mosaics in the dome of the Clementine Chapel, one of ...

A few steps from Piazza Navona, between Via di Tor Millina and the church of Santa Maria dell’Anima, in the Parione district during the Renaissance, there was a workshop run by a highly ...

Entire glaciers, temples, and even an Australian rock once climbed by thousands have vanished from guidebooks in just a few decades, as data from CNN Travel show that sites from Bolivia’s Chacaltaya ...

Four hundred years after its consecration, Saint Peter’s Basilica is getting a 21st-century upgrade, with the Vatican unveiling plans for AI-powered translation services, expanded pilgrim access and ...

I trudged through Spain as a rift grew within American Catholicism. I returned home with a renewed sense and understanding of faith.

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