Entering the offices on the third floor of the Renaissance palazzo, you walk past frescoes of some of the first maps of the world ... offices in and around Vatican City State and Rome.

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

Here’s a look at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Facts The full name of the country is State of Vatican City. It stands on ...

After 38 days in hospital battling double pneumonia almost entirely out of sight, Pope Francis made his first public ...

Details of the British monarch’s visit to the Vatican and Italy were released on Tuesday by Buckingham Palace.