Vatican City is located in Rome, along the Tiber River. Yes, the Vatican is its own country. In fact, it's the smallest fully independent nation state in the world, according to Britannica. The ...

Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter's ...

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass in Vatican City on Sunday, the White House announced ... a 2,000-year-old institution into ...

he took over the Vatican office that oversees bishop nominations, was made an archbishop and, last year, a cardinal. But he’d often come back to Chicago and get together with Lego, his old ...

The papal apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional home of ...

Reflections on Old Age.” The book, which was written by Cardinal Angelo Scola, retired archbishop of Milan, was set to be released April 24 by the Vatican publishing house. Pope Francis ...

The Sistine Chapel has been decked out to host a papal election as cardinals from around the globe moved into a Vatican guest ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” ...

For over 12 years, Pope Francis, who died on Monday at 88 years old ... the Vatican camerlengo. "At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father.

Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced the sad news that 88-year-old Pope Francis passed away from a cerebral stroke and irreversible heart failure at around 7.30am on Easter Monday ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a kinder, gentler mass media, one that speaks up for those with no voice and in defense of free ...

Catholic cardinals are filing into the Sistine Chapel for the start of the conclave to elect a new pope to follow Pope ...