VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension ...

The fragrant Italian Christmas bread is ubiquitous in the Eternal City. A Rome-based journalist shares her favorite places to ...

What looks like a tiny dot on the map turns out to be one of the most remarkable places in Europe, where centuries of faith and culture sit side by side ...

A new Hulu series from the co-creators of Evil, Robert and Michelle King, is allowing Ridley Scott to revisit a premise from ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, Christians from all over the world will flock to Vatican City, a country surrounded by Rome, Italy. Vatican City is a city-state, the world’s smallest country, and ...

Carson Daly and his wife, Siri, traveled to Rome for the Vatican's "Concert with the Poor," led by their friend Michael Bublé ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomes new ambassadors to the Vatican during an audience in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace Dec. 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Pope Leo XIV welcomes new ambassadors to ...

CONOR McGregor and long-time partner Dee Devlin were set to marry in a hush-hush Vatican ceremony today as social media ...

Vatican City is often described as the smallest country in the world, both in size and population. It officially became an ...

A Vatican commission has yet to take a firm decision on whether women could become deacons, but the answer for now remains no ...

The Vatican, the smallest state in the world, possesses a unique and complex legal, administrative, and spiritual structure designed to guarantee the independence of the pope and allow the Church to ...