Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery, music and dance—is finally back on public ...

The statue of the Virgin chosen by the Vatican to represent hope during the opening of the Jubilee comes from Battipaglia, a center particularly renowned for buffalo mozzarella. The 19th-century ...

The Vatican has given the green light for ... Pilgrims say their prayers next to the statue of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje (Armin Durgut/AP) It listed no example of any negative experiences ...

In 1809, Napoleon's men entered the Vatican, arrested Pius VII and brought ... of the Church between two pillars, one with a statue of Mary (Auxilium Christianorum or 'Help of Christians') and ...

Anna Pidlisna, 32, of Ukraine, says she came to Medjugorje—where plaster statues can fetch ... Augustin Misago and the Vatican declared that, yes, the Virgin Mary had appeared at Kibeho.

Because the Vatican has published very little over the centuries about its finances and investments, most people don't know how it makes money as a sovereign city-state with its own economy.

Francis and the entire College of Cardinals will celebrate a Mass of thanksgiving together in the Vatican basilica. While the pope typically goes to venerate a statue of the Virgin Mary close to ...

Following the discovery of the statue in Rome in 1489, Pope Julius II requested the Apollo Belvedere to be brought to the Vatican in the early 16th century to be part of a papal collection known ...

There is rejoicing that the Vatican has recognised the spiritual fruits of the alleged apparitions of Mary in a small town in ...

"In such a chaotic time, the dedication of the Korean Virgin Mary mosaic in the Vatican Gardens holds great ... Last September, he led the installation of a statue of Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gon ...