Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving behind only 500 permanent residents. I once spent a week behind the ...

The Vatican allows Catholic marriages to take place in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica and in the small city ...

ROME (AP) — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was ...

The Tower of Nicholas V, the seat of the Institute of Religious Works (IOR), inside Vatican City State. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – During the first hearing in a civil trial over the ...

A British court has largely backed the Vatican and refused to declare that a London-based financier acted in “good faith” in ...