About 150 restorers are fusing scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch and revive Forbidden City ...

The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

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From a balcony, Francis greeted hundreds of people waiting outside the hospital where he had been treated for respiratory ...

The pope's return home, after the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy and the second-longest in recent papal ...

Terrorism and a massive military response to it are threatening the lives of Christians in the Holy Land who ensure that the places associated with the life, death and resurrection of Jesus are not ...

(Photo: YouTube screenshot/Vatican News) Pope Francis, 88, spent the night from February 22 to 23 “peacefully and at rest.” As it has done every morning since his hospitalization at Rome’s ...

For nearly two weeks, Pope Francis has been outside Vatican territory, hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Hospital for a severe respiratory infection. It was a shockwave for the Catholic Church ...

It’s time to more actively engage the community in solving one of Boston’s biggest and most heartbreaking crimes.

A painting of Christ being laid in the tomb, long hidden under layers of overpainting and forgotten by history, will once ...