Walled and facing St. Peter's Square, the Vatican serves as the heart of Catholic worship and global religious diplomacy.

A family of seagulls — two adults feeding a chick — had gathered by the papal chimney a couple of minutes before white smoke ...

With a collection of around 70,000 artworks, the Vatican Museums span a large part of the city-state. The exhibitions range ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Corippo, a small village in Switzerland, is on the verge of becoming a ghost town. Situated in the ...

The Vatican is the world's smallest country, ruled by the Pope, with its own laws, bank, and army. Formed in 1929, it holds ...

Robert Prevost has never had direct relations with Moscow, but the name he chose evokes very important relations in the history of relations between East and West in the ancient and modern Church, fro ...

In the official White House Presidential Message on Holy Week, dated April 13, Trump recounts the events of Palm Sunday to ...

Governed by the Pope and home to the Roman Catholic ... the Vatican operates as a unique blend of monarchy, theocracy and sovereign state. Despite its size, it functions with its own legal system ...

Pope Francis would come to make his papacy in that image ... and it parallels some of the developments in Protestantism that ...

These are just recent headlines from one state. From 2004-23, the Catholic Church paid more than $5 billion to settle sexual ...

To try to create an America of two religions is a first step toward an America of one religion, Steve Shoemaker says.

In 1059 Pope Nicholas II for the first time forbade ... the West avoided becoming a theocracy. But nor were the Western monarchs ever truly successful in claiming legitimacy by divine right ...