More than 50 years before the first Paralympic Games were held in 1960 in Rome, the Vatican had already hosted what might have been the very first international sporting and gymnastics event with ...

The Vatican has warned a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group that it risks going into schism if it goes ahead with plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent.

Rome is in mourning as the world says goodbye to Pope Francis, a transformative leader and spiritual guide to more than a billion Catholics. His death marks the end of an era and sets in motion a ...

Nora Meijide-Gentry went to Rome in 2013 hoping to meet the new Pope Francis. This photo shows how close she was to the pontiff. Nora Meijide-Gentry finds herself just opposite a group of Argentines ...

Deep within the walls of Vatican City lies a repository of secrets, a library of power, and a documented history of the world seen through the eyes of one of its oldest and most influential ...

SINCE the late 1500s, a small workshop in the Vatican has cared for the hundreds of mosaics that decorate the interior of St Peter's Basilica in a sea of colour.