The world’s smallest nation has an outsized history as the seat of the Catholic Church, and an incredible collection of art ...

Meanwhile, the Etruscan Museum has 2700-year old vases ... artists such as Botticelli and Perugino. A fraction of Vatican visitors see the manicured gardens that are glimpsed from museum windows.

Credit: Wikipedia / Public Domain A newly discovered painted Etruscan tomb in Italy, hidden beneath layers of soil for centuries ... Maras, the lead archaeologist, and director of the National ...

Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, has spent the last 30 years staring at the sky. As the director of the Vatican Observatory, known informally as “the pope’s astronomer,” he has just published ...

Around 20 women have been appointed to roles ranging from the governing board of the Financial Information Authority to the Secretariat of State, the Vatican Library, and the Museums. Many of ...

Apostolic Exhortation on Jesus Christ and the Peoples of Oceania: Walking His Way, Telling His Truth, Living His Life Pope John Paul II Rome, November 22, 2001 Reference to Mary: paragraph 5 and 53, ...