The Rev. David Tracy, who died on April 29, was a monumental figure in American Catholicism, renowned as a teacher, scholar, ...

The Vatican Library is the custodian of a major part of humanity’s literary heritage. That includes more than 80,000 ancient ...

Since the days of Pope Wojtyla, an accomplished skier, swimmer, and trekker, the Vatican had not seen a Successor of Peter as ...

When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

More than 80,000 ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library will be restored and digitized thanks to an agreement with the ...

Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

More of Caravaggio’s religious paintings are in chapels downtown Rome. The Conversion of Saul, an early version of which is ...

The unvirginal hands of a gay man decorated the walls and ceilings the most famous church in the world: the Sistine Chapel.

Pope Leo XIV's religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who ...

Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who ...

In the days after Pope Leo XIV's election, his eldest brother's past posts supporting President Donald Trump got media ...