Two days after opening the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica to inaugurate the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis will travel to a ...

Vatican City generates revenue through museum admissions and the sale of ... Donations, particularly through the Peter's Pence collection, form a substantial part of the funding.

Praying hands are a commonplace of European art, but for Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera it’s all about the feet of the prayerful. Constellations of soles ...

Any researcher who has spent some time at the Vatican will find familiarity in the characters ... the 686 election of Pope Conon is described in “The Book of Pontiffs,” a medieval collection of short ...

Investigations started in 2023, when police seized around 200 fake pieces from the collection of ... been displayed in ...

The realm of art collectors is rich with diversity: some seek aesthetic pleasure and investment opportunities, while others ...

The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has raised £4.5 million to save an early Renaissance painting by Fra ...

Ashmolean saves Fra Angelico masterpiece for the public, launching the museum as world-leading centre for the study of ...

Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save from being sold overseas.

The Pontifical University Santa Croce (Holy Cross) in Rome, recently held a ten-day course dedicated to the Christian and Jewish perspectives on the Ten Commandments, seeking to foster a deeper ...

We asked fellow travelers to share their favorite vacation ideas in Europe for large families. These are their ...

Originally focused on education, they adapted to changing times after Vatican II in the 1960s ... The French Lick West Baden ...