According to Vatican Museums’ official website, “it is forbidden to take photographs or films with any type of electronic equipment” inside the Sistine Chapel ...

The Giro d’Italia will pay homage to the late Pope Francis by passing through the Vatican gardens behind St. Peter’s Basilica and in front of the Santa Marta hotel — where Francis lived — during the ...

a professor of Church History at Pontifical Gregorian University. Names being bandied about include Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s 70-year-old Secretary of State who has global ...

Giro D'Italia Cycling Race to Go Inside ... No. 2 in the Vatican’s culture and education ministry, said hosting the Giro highlights “that there is kind of an interest in the Church in the ...

ROME (AP) — It could very well be the biggest sporting event ever held inside the walls ... That is important for us as a church." The cyclists will enter the Vatican through the Petriano ...

In this special Inside the Vatican roundtable ... legacy and final days of a pope who changed the Catholic Church—and changed them. Gerry, who perhaps knew Francis more as a friend than as ...

Bishop Paul Tighe, the No. 2 in the Vatican’s culture and education ministry, said hosting the Giro highlights “that there is kind of an interest in the Church in the whole reality of sport.

Security helicopters and fighter jets are expected to fly above the Vatican during the ceremony. Anti-drone weapons and sophisticated jamming technology are in place. Inside the basilica ...