Black smoke billows from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel on March 13, 2013, indicating that the College of ...

From the window of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis greets a local group of Emergency supporting Article 11 of the Italian ...

The Roman basilica of St. John Lateran marks the 1,700th anniversary of its dedication on Saturday, Nov. 9. It’s a feast day ...

Pope Francis expressed hope that both the incoming and outgoing U.S. administrations will collaborate to secure the return of ...

However, he has declined an invitation to Paris to attend the reopening of Notre-Dame a week before, which has irritated the French presidency.

The closing session of the diocesan phase of Father Pedro Arrupe's beatification process took place November 14 in Rome. The ...

The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

Ehud Olmert, who served as the Israeli prime minister from 2006 to 2009, and Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian foreign minister from 2005 to 2006, met Pope Francis Oct. 17 in the library of the ...

Pope Francis greets Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples during an audience with seminarians and staff from the Cardinal ...

The Sistine Chapel resides in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, located within Rome, Italy. The study’s authors include Andreas G. Nerlich, Johann C. Dewaal, Antonio Perciaccante ...