Chicago Tribune photographer Brian Cassella captures the scene ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s installation in Vatican City.

Ranging over centuries and geography, and migrating across syllabi, the book was as familiar to Dutch paintings experts as ...

Each day, our special correspondents in Rome tell you what is happening at the Vatican during this very special time leading ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful ...

The Giro d’Italia will pay homage to the late Pope Francis by passing through the Vatican gardens behind St. Peter’s Basilica ...

In St. Peter's Square, in the shadow of the 17th-century colonnade designed by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, stands ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — As Amazonian bishops gathered at the Vatican on Oct. 21, 2019, a man entered a nearby church after dawn and stole three Indigenous statues brought to Rome for the occasion. He ...

Battcher said he was at the Vatican in November 2022, just feet away, when Pope Francis blessed the original “Sheltering” statue. “When I was there, I said, 'There’s got to be a way with ...

While Medieval Conclaves could extend for months and even years, the rules were tweaked by Pope John Paul II and Pope ...

The church officially recognizes St. Peter, the first pope, as the longest-serving, with at least 34 years. However, many ...