The fortified towers, and the paths between them, are the main attraction of San Marino. They can be visited upon purchase of ...

Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain ...

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

The U.S.-born leader of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East discusses the rapid decline of Christianity ...

Now aged 55, he was tired of spending his days rifling through papers of state and worrying about Protestant upstarts ... as he pried the Habsburg Netherlands out of the Holy Roman Empire – the very ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV visited the papal summer palace south of Rome on Thursday as questions swirled whether he will use it ...

University students and archaeologists located an ancient Roman military camp beyond the empire’s northern frontier in the Netherlands. Photo from Constructing the Limes A team of university students ...

Pope Leo isn't just the leader of the Catholic Church. He's also the head of the Holy See, the central governing body of ...

The state's government is the Holy See, which is a sovereign juridical entity under international law. The Church itself is governed by the Roman Curia, which is made up of the Secretariat of ...

The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest ... state -- one third of which are gardens. The state's government is the Holy See, which is a sovereign juridical entity under ...