Lateran V was held 1512-1517 and was not a successful venture; the Protestant Reformation began as it ended. The 1929 treaty between the Republic of Italy and the Holy See, ...

Discover why Vatican City, the heart of the Catholic Church, remains an independent city-state entirely surrounded by Rome.

Researchers discovered the walls in the square outside the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. The team was led by Daniela Porro, the director of the ministry's art history department.

But Italian officials have informed the Russians that, under the 1929 Lateran Treaty that established the state of Vatican City, their government must grant safe passage to diplomatic missions to ...

His predecessor and patron, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State under two popes for 15 years, framer of the Lateran Treaty between the Italian state and the Vatican, gave the ...

At 8:52 the procession halted in the courtyard before the Lateran Palace. There, ... The late Pope Pius XI quietly took over St. John’s without pageantry after the Lateran Treaty of 1929.

Most people think the Pope's church is St. Peter's Basilica. But as the Bishop of Rome, his actual seat is in a church on the other side of Rome called St. John Lateran.

This is one of the best of the numerous recent studies of the Roman Question. The author, the well-known political writer of the Echo de Paris, places the Lateran Treaties in their proper historical ...

These countries maintain national security without a military – army, navy, or air force – through treaties and strategic diplomacy for external alliances.

On the anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Leo XIV travels to the Vatican Radio shortwave transmission center in the ...