Sister Raffaella Petrini will become the first woman to lead the Vatican City State governorate when she takes office March 1 ...

ROME (AP) — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was ...

ROME - Pope Francis is continuing his treatment for a respiratory infection in hospital, where he will remain for as long as ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis slept well during a quiet first night in the hospital after being admitted with a respiratory tract ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Welcoming me at the entrance of the Vatican Library is Don Giacomo Cardinali, commissioner of the Exhibition Hall and ...

Pope Francis will be hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic at the end of Friday’s daily audiences to undergo some ...

Pope Francis, who was taken to hospital on Friday for treatment of bronchitis, is suffering from a respiratory infection but ...

After suffering from bronchitis for more than a week, the 88-year-old Pope Francis was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

A Virginia Catholic bishop says the desecration of the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday points to a larger ...

Representing a united heritage and respect for the collective history of our world, this is how to visit all seven modern ...