For millions of Catholics around the world, going to the Vatican is a spiritual experience unlike any other. However, for ...

Following extensive restorations, the Vatican Museums is opening the largest of the Raphael Rooms to the public. Located in ...

ROME -- The Vatican city court on Saturday sentenced Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once touted as a possible papal contender, to 5 1/2 years in prison for mismanaging a Vatican property ...

The pope needed an electric vehicle he could take abroad without having to take it apart for transport. Club Car obliged.

Vatican City and the Holy See employ about 2,000 people, with an operating budget of about $835 million. Yes, the Catholic Church has wealth — and the ongoing problem of deficits and financial ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Catholic clergy and laypeople will gather at the Vatican Oct. 4-29 for a synod, or summit of bishops and lay people, to discuss synodality, with an emphasis on communion ...

Leo will disappear further this weekend when he begins a six-week vacation in his first break since his historic election May ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Donations to the Holy See are expected to continue to drop following financial scandals currently at the heart of a high-profile Vatican trial.The institution is tackling an ...

Cardinal Angelo Becciu was sentence to five-and-a-half years in jail Saturday after being convicted of embezzlement by a Vatican tribunal. Becciu is the first cardinal ever prosecuted by the ...

VATICAN CITY — A conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on Wednesday, May 7, the Vatican announced Monday. The date of the conclave was chief on the agenda of cardinals holding ...

Vatican City is the world’s smallest fully independent nation-state. It is ruled by the pope, who is the head of the Holy See, the central government of the Catholic Church.

Vatican City is located in Rome, along the Tiber River. Yes, the Vatican is its own country. In fact, it's the smallest fully independent nation state in the world, according to Britannica .