A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on X ...

Cardinal Mauro Bassetti, center, blesses the altar of the confession during a penitential rite inside St. Peter’s Basilica, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Gregorio Borgia / AP Photo By The Associated Press ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Restorers put the finishing touches Tuesday on the ornate canopy covering the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, which has been covered in scaffolding for months during ...

The restoration of the monumental baldachin over the main altar in St Peters Basilica has been completed after months of work. Its the first time in 250 years that it has undergone such a cleaning.

The alleged victim of sexual abuse in a youth seminary in the Vatican said in court on Wednesday that his abuser wanted to have sex in a bathroom behind an altar in St. Peter's Basilica but he ...

Pontifical Swiss guards stand outside the St. Peter's Basilica, in St. Peter's Square, where the body of Pope Francis will lie in state at for three days, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on X ...

The structure, which is positioned over the basilica’s main altar to provide a ceremonial covering for the tomb of St. Peter underneath, was completed from the 1620s to 1630s on Pope Urban VIII ...

Cardinal Mauro Bassetti, right, celebrates a penitential rite in front of the altar of the confession inside St. Peter's Basilica, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ...

The structure, which is positioned over the basilica’s main altar to provide a ceremonial covering for the tomb of St. Peter underneath, was completed from the 1620s to 1630s on Pope Urban VIII ...