The vagina detector test at the Vatican’s entrance will hardly be decommissioned, such a thing imagined in the irascible words of a true radical, the recently deceased poet Pat Ingoldsby: “A ...

Vatican City, Rome, ... The circular shape made by 284 columns symbolises the Church's embrace of all of mankind. ... Entrance to St Peter's Basilica ...

An unholy war is brewing in the Catholic Church, said Paola Totaro in The ... the fragile 88-year-old Pope Francis sparks alarm with "every cough or hospital admission". ... A Vatican employee ...

David Willey, who spent decades reporting from Rome for the BBC, reflects on the transformation of the Vatican under Francis - the eighth pope of our former correspondent's lifetime. I have ...