Smithsonian contributing writer Tony Perrottet, who wrote recently about Rome’s underworld—the city lurking beneath the city.

The audience was a culmination of Jubilee celebration that included liturgies in diverse rites of Eastern Catholic Churches ...

The peoples of our world desire peace,” Pope Leo XIV said, “and to their leaders I appeal with all my heart: Let us meet, let ...

In the Paul VI Hall, the pontiff met with Eastern Catholics together with their patriarchs and metropolitans, who are in Rome ...

In a remarkable discovery, archaeologists working onrenovations for the 2025 Vatican Jubilee uncovered a hidden piece of Rome ...

"War is never inevitable," the pope told them. "Weapons can and must be silenced, for they do not resolve problems but only ...

Eastern and Latin alike — who, above all in the Middle East, persevere and remain in their homelands,” Leo said May 14.

Lesser-known New Rome also provides respite from crowds, as the city centre battles with over tourism. When the Trevi fountain reopened after restoration works in December 2024, it did so with a new ...

A forgotten stadium that was abandoned after costing £505 million will finally be completed 12 years later. The Rome-based ...

The election of an American pope, Leo XIV, is a fitting culmination of a conclave that had the feel of an American ...

Each day, our special correspondents in Rome bring you the latest from the Vatican following the death of Pope Francis and ...

Still, it was an exciting moment for the Americans who were at the Vatican that day. Mariner says he and his wife were in a ...