The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Museums is seen at the Vatican in this July 14, 2010, file photo. The election of Pope Francis has boosted the number of visitors to the Vatican and also the Museums.

One night in early 2019, Rome street artist Alessia Babrow glued a stylized image of Christ she had made onto a bridge near the Vatican. A year later, she was shocked to learn that the Vatican had ...

Vatican News articles about Catholic feast days have continued to regularly feature Father Rupnik’s art after public abuse accusations were made against the Slovenian priest at the end of 2022. On the ...

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has died at age 88. A Jesuit priest known for championing the poor and migrants, the environment, and, to a certain extent, the LGBTQ community, ...

VATICAN CITY — Ten thousand hours. This is how long it takes to digitally analyze, map and conserve a marble statue, which could well be 2,000 years old. The work is not about restoring the statue to ...

Visitors to the de Young Museum dazzled by glamorous exhibits featuring famed European paintings or modern American masterworks may miss the large upstairs gallery, which is filled with sculptures and ...

‘The Pietà’ by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. (Credit: Kamil Porembiński via Flickr.) Listen NEW YORK – As curators at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

On the final day of the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta, the prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication addressed questions posed by journalists about the dicastery's regular practice ...

Artist Alessia Babrow holds the Vatican stamps next to her street art during an interview with the Associated Press, at the Vatican, Friday, May 14, 2021. One night in early 2019, Rome street artist ...