The Vatican’s vast archives, often shrouded in mystery, hold centuries of historical documents, some of which are pivotal to the understanding of world history and religion. These archives, known as ...

The kayak, hand-built from driftwood, sealskin and sinew, was one of the artifacts earmarked for repatriation by Inuit ...

After their arrival on a snowy tarmac in Montreal Saturday, a number of Inuit objects among the 62 cultural items belonging to First Nations, Inuit and Métis and repatriated from the Vatican were ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Their four years of conversations, from 2020-2024, provide a parallel, behind-the-scenes version of one of the most tumultuous periods in Vatican history, when Pope Francis ...

Vatican II closed 60 years ago this week. One of its final documents, “Gaudium et Spes,” has also proved to be perhaps its ...

The Vatican, the smallest state in the world, possesses a unique and complex legal, administrative, and spiritual structure designed to guarantee the independence of the pope and allow the Church to ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gerald Posner is the author of 13 books, including God's Bankers. Pope Francis’ sweeping reforms cleaned up some of the mess at ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In the last two years, defense lawyers have acquired 3,225 pages of WhatsApp messages between two women who were tangential to the Vatican’s “trial of the century,” but were ...