(THE CONVERSATION) For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary. For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims have ...

The relic dispayed just above the tomb of St. Peter will be accessible for public viewing until Dec. 8, the solemnity of the ...

In one of the most humorous and inexplicable events of 2024, the Vatican (the literal headquarters of the Roman Catholic ...

With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope ...

A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most ...

The Vatican has introduced Luce, its first-ever anime mascot Luce. Luce — meaning “light” in Italian — will serve as the ...

The Vatican's introduction of Luce, its mascot for the 2025 Jubilee Year, led to a flood of fan art commemorating the cute anime character and her sidekick, a dog named Santino. Archbishop Fisichella ...

Because the Vatican has published very little over the centuries about its finances and investments, most people don't know how it makes money as a sovereign city-state with its own economy.

Some of the art depicts Luce in a more detailed style, but others make jokes about her hanging out with Jesus. Either way, there are loads of them, so scroll on to see them all. The Vatican ...

(photo: Simone Risoluti / Vatican Media ... presenting Mary as a synodal figure (29). “She is the form of the Church who ...

She will represent the Vatican’s pavilion theme, ‘Beauty Brings Hope,’ alongside Caravaggio’s ‘The Entombment of Christ,’ a painting that will be temporarily on loan from the Vatican ...

With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope ...