The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican City has felt the need to toughen punishments for people entering ...

Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has ...

The Vatican Codex (Codex Vaticanus ... To claim his creation, he carved, “Michelangelo from Florence made this,” onto Mary’s sash. He wasn’t known to leave this kind of signature on ...

Eight years before, the limited premier edition of The Szyk Haggadah I created (2006-08) had been donated to the Vatican ...

This historic country is not defined by its small size - it's a highly significant city and you can see the whole place in a ...

Pope Francis baptized 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel, a tradition marking the end of Christmas at the Vatican. He emphasized the children's importance in the ceremony, which includes lighting a ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS ... including the Baldachin by Renaissance artist Gianlorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo’s Pietà. Joe Long, the founder and managing director of the pilgrimage organization ...

And iconic artworks and sites such as Michelangelo’s Pietà ... baroque treasures to discover beyond the heavy traffic of the Vatican and Galleria Borghese. Palazzo Altemps, for instance ...

Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has ...

Pope Francis baptized 21 infants in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday, continuing an annual tradition marking the end of the ...

The pontiff personally administered the sacrament of baptism on the infants, who are the children of Vatican employees working at the Holy See. The celebration marks the feast day that recalls ...