The public viewing of Pope Francis' casket is scheduled to resume Thursday, a day after it began with numbers that were so ...

Faithful and nuns gather by the statue of Pope Pius IX, inside in St. Mary Major basilica, where Pope Francis will be buried, ...

He made Barbara Jatta the first woman director of the Vatican Museums in 2016. In 2021, he appointed Sister Nathalie Becquart as co-undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, which prepares major ...

With the world's 1.3 billion Catholics now mourning the death of Pope Francis, many of them will be wanting to head to Rome as he lies in state at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. News of ...

ROME — The museums of the Vatican and Rome’s ancient Jewish community are hosting their first joint exhibit, building on decades of improved Catholic-Jewish relations following centuries of ...

The Vatican declined to confirm or deny the reports, which stressed that any such outing would be private and depend on Francis’ condition. But it also seemed plausible, given Francis ...

The annual list is this year topped by the British Museum, the Vatican museums in Rome and the Louvre in Paris. In Tel Aviv, the museum’s most visited exhibition over the last year was “To Catch a ...

But one thing I never expected was to get into one of the most iconic museums in the world with it. Last year when planning a trip to Rome, I booked a guided tour of the Vatican Museum and Sistine ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the Vatican defended many of the administration’s foreign-aid cuts at a Senate hearing Tuesday, even while saying Catholic charitable groups ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at reforming the Smithsonian Institution by removing what he considers "improper ideology" from its museums, research centers ...

In my experience, food tours tend to be less popular between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. If you're planning to tour the Vatican Museums or Colosseum ... them to share relevant information about the ...