Pope Francis is just a few weeks away from his 88th birthday, and plotting for his successor is well underway at the Vatican. Meanwhile, just across town in Rome, 'Conclave' a thriller filled with ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New thriller ‘Conclave’ comes close to home for the Vatican as it arrives at Rome film fest Ralph ...

There’s something hilarious, and wonderful, about seeing actors you know striding importantly around a soundstage version of the Vatican while dressed in official cardinal garb. That’s the mag ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican’s most highly anticipated gathering since the 1960s ended Saturday with the thorniest issues facing the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics largely unanswered. The Synod ...

Still, there are parts of Vatican City that are off limits ... which is the most amazing big-scale room with silk wallpaper.

The hotel’s original “wedding color” palette wasn’t quite the vibe King had in mind, so he designed green wallpaper and had the plaster pillars painted to look like wood, design changes ...

VATICAN CITY — The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to ...

The Catholic population in Europe fell by nearly half a million people in 2022 but continued to increase in every other part of the world, according to data released by the Vatican this week.

At the end of 2022, the number of Catholics in the world reached 1.389 billion, up 0.79% from 1.378 billion Catholics at the end of 2021, according to the Vatican's Central Office of Church ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined ...

It was pushing noon after all. Perhaps a small shot. If Vatican this is, Baba Mondi, Charlemagne’s genial host, is the Holy Father. Donning a 12-sided hat as he greets visitors in the compound ...

Amid the 2015 synod on the family, an anonymous group of cardinals wrote to Pope Francis protesting the direction of the Vatican summit that the then-newly elected pontiff had called to discuss ...