The signature of astronomer Galileo Galilei from the records of his trial is seen on a document in the Vatican Secret Archives. Citing the negative misinterpretations that the word “secret” implies, ...

Books are pictured in a cabinet in the Vatican Apostolic Archives. Pope Leo XIII founded the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics and Archive Administration in 1884, just a few years after he ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted secret archives are all that secret: It has opened up the files of controversial World War II-era Pope ...

Rumors about what lies hidden beneath the Vatican have resurfaced after renewed claims that its secret vaults could contain relics tied to biblical history. The Vatican Secret Archive, formally known ...

(JTA) — The Vatican secret archive relating to controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII will be opened next year. Pope Francis made the announcement at an audience with managers and staff of the ...