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 ...

In a papal chirograph dated Feb. 11, three days prior to his admission to the Gemelli Hospital, but issued on Feb. 26, the pope established the Commissio de donationibus pro Sancta Sede, which is ...

The Vatican has officially designated St. Edward Catholic church in Palm Beach as a minor basilica. St. Edward is now the 94th minor basilica in the United States.

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 ...

The retreat, an annual gathering that kicks off the Catholic Church’s solemn Lenten season leading to Easter, continues through the week. The Vatican has said Francis would participate “in ...

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 ...