Erratum. Contrary to what I wrote in my October 5 Vatican Diary, at the Paul VI audience hall, where the Synod of Bishops on synodality discussions are taking place in Rome, was not decorated with ...

Further reading: Vatican II and the new wave of conservative Catholicism in the United States Alfred Emanuel Smith was a Catholic politician, the governor of the state of New York (1923-1928 ...

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

For a decade, one writer tried to unravel the story of Dorje Chang, whose artwork sold for millions and who claimed to be the ...

From Istanbul's Blue Mosque to Paris’s Notre Dame, religious monuments have awed and amazed the masses for thousands of ...

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 ...

He will then open the Holy Doors at the major basilicas of St. John Lateran on Dec. 29, St. Mary Major ... three art ...

He will then open the Holy Doors at the major basilicas of St. John Lateran Dec. 29, St. Mary Major ... three art exhibitions ...

There’s something hilarious, and wonderful, about seeing actors you know striding importantly around a soundstage version of the Vatican while dressed in official cardinal garb. That’s the mag ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican’s most highly anticipated gathering since the 1960s ended Saturday with the thorniest issues facing the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics largely unanswered. The Synod ...

They maintain separate budgets, and Vatican City income, including from the popular Vatican Museums, has often been used to plug deficits in the Holy See’s budget. (Except for the headline, this story ...