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

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

The city - sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce ...

The release of the photo a month into his treatment came after dozens of young people gathered under the pontiff’s windows to ...

The Vatican said the pontiff also did some work on Sunday. The Vatican press office released a photo of Pope Francis on Sunday in a private chapel of Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where he continues to ...

Pope Francis was well enough on Tuesday to meet with the Vatican secretary of state and carry out essential work despite being in hospital in critical condition with double pneumonia. The 88-year ...

VATICAN CITY — How’s Pope Francis doing? Can you give him my get-well wishes? Can I speak with him directly? The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of ...

It marks the first picture of the 88-year-old pontiff since his admission to Gemelli Hospital in the Italian capital on Feb. 14, and the first since the Vatican announced he was “out of danger ...

Our guide was a senior member of the Vatican’s art restoration team, the mother of Marty’s student now working in Rome. Petite and elegant, she welcomed us warmly, playfully tugging at the ...

The Vatican has expressed its solidarity with Muslims participating in the Ramadan fast, noting that Catholics also fast and do penance during the season of Lent and inviting greater dialogue and ...

ROME (AP) — Vatican releases first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Francis co-celebrating Mass in hospital chapel.

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican on Sunday (Mar 16) released the first image of Pope Francis in hospital since he began treatment for double pneumonia, in which the 88-year-old pontiff appeared to be ...