The Dicastery for the Eastern Churches has prepared a pastoral guide for the 2025 Jubilee of the Eastern Churches to be ...

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will transport visitors to Renaissance Italy and commemorate the 550th ...

The pope’s wheelchair came to a stop before the small Holy Door, typically sealed, in the grand St. Peter’s Basilica. According to tradition and a ritual largely unchanged since the 1500s, the ...

The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican ...

Italy is the birthplace of the Renaissance. It boasts works by legendary artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, ...

Instead of trying to break down the art of naming a child, let’s try something different and use art as inspiration for the ...

From the Prado in Madrid and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the National Museum of Art in Beijing and the Getty Center in ...

Day 6 includes the creation of man, not in the sense of “male” but in the sense of mankind, humanity. Unlike Genesis 2, ...

One legendary passage—hinted at in plans by Leonardo da Vinci—was used by a duke to secretly visit the tomb of his beloved ...

3. He made a vow not to watch TV and hasn't really cheated. Reporters who cover the Vatican have heard for years that Francis ...

Pope Francis baptized 21 infants in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday, continuing an annual tradition marking the end of the ...

Edoardo, Mia Maria, Silvia, Lorenzo, and 17 other children “are in charge,” Pope Francis explained, "and we must serve them, ...