The Vatican's embassy in Kyiv was slightly damaged during Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital early on Thursday morning, ...

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 the smallest independent state in the world, an enclave tucked inside of Rome -- just 110 acres in area, with fewer than 1,000 residents.

The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...

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 ...

The shy 69-year-old Augustinian missionary has eschewed the headline-grabbing protagonism of past pontiffs in favor of a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The two-and-a-half-year trial in Vatican City’s criminal court has involved 10 defendants including, for the first time, a cardinal. He is Giovanni Angelo Becciu, ...

Global dignitaries and faith leaders from around the world gathered in Vatican City on Sunday as Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV presided over his installation Mass, officially marking the beginning of ...