Giorgio Capriotti is one of the Vatican Museums’ art restorers who meticulously worked on these details on the massive canopy. Capriotti said that despite more than a century since the last ...

Vatican museums seek modern art, a dose of "Hairspray" for Michelle ... the museums received $2.3 million in revenues from royalties and the sale of books and posters during the tour, he said.

Vatican City may be small, but it's steeped in religious history. It has a long history of being strongly linked with Christianity as the site of Saint Peter's tomb as well as being filled with ...

VATICAN CITY — Restorers put the finishing touches Tuesday on the ornate canopy covering the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, which has been covered in scaffolding for months during the ...

The Vatican on Saturday published the schedule for Pope Francis’ consistory to create new cardinals, stating that the liturgy will take place on Dec. 7 — not Dec. 8, as previously announced.

(The Conversation) — Women’s formal involvement in bishops’ synods has grown slowly over the decades. Even when they were excluded, Catholic women found ways to learn about proceedings ...

The Vatican's doctrinal czar on Oct. 2 closed the door — for now — on women deacons. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández told synod members that the possibility of restoring the female ...

Colleen Dulle and Gerard O'Connell tackle your burning questions in a special mailbag episode of “Inside the Vatican.” Tune in for their answers on issues that matter to ordinary Catholics.

A group of men and women gathered at a chapel near the Vatican, confidently praying that the church would restore the female diaconate Oct. 3, the day after synod participants were told it would ...

ROME – While offering an overall positive judgment on the Marian apparitions and devotions associated with the Medjugorje phenomenon in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Vatican nevertheless said in a new ...

The Vatican on Thursday gave the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary, offering its approval for ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican confirmed that plans remain in place for Pope Francis to go to Belgium and Luxembourg later this week, despite having canceled all his audiences Monday because of ...