The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ ...

The statue of the Virgin chosen by the Vatican to represent hope during the opening of the Jubilee comes from Battipaglia, a center particularly renowned for buffalo mozzarella. The 19th-century ...

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

His daily conversation with the Virgin Mary ... and statues of the Virgin. A boy receives Communion at the Jasna Góra Monastery, in Częstochowa, Poland. The Black Madonna—a revered painting ...

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Friday overhauled its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena that have marked church ...

Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous ... escaped destruction, the statue of Apollo represents the highest ideal of art,” Johann Winckelmann ...

Insights Works of art are often targets for political dissent.  Thankfully, many art attacks can be painstakingly restored.  Some of these attacks are not meant to destroy but for attention.  Also: 2 ...

Following the discovery of the statue ... “We [the Vatican Museums] are the oldest museum in the world and so people from all around the world now can appreciate the faith, the art, the history ...

The sculpture had been on view at the St. Mary Cathedral, Austria's largest, as part of an art installation ... he snuck into a Vatican-area church, stole Amazonian indigenous statues of pregnant ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Vatican on Oct. 11 for a meeting ... In turn, Zelensky reportedly gave Pope Francis an oil painting named "The Bucha Massacre – the Story ...