In Paris or New York, they might queue to see the French master’s work, but not here in the Vatican Museums in Rome, where ...

It was on November 1, 1512,  that public entry was first allowed in the Sistine Chapel. Built between 1473 and 1481, the chapel walls feature scenes from the lives of Moses and Jesus Christ, painted ...

Charles is the head of state — sovereign “by the grace of God” — in the constitutional monarchies of the United Kingdom and ...

A Glasgow-based loyalist group has refused to sing the national anthem in a protest against King Charles’ recent visit to the Vatican. On Saturday, members of the West End Ulster Defence Union took ...

Europe doesn’t do subtlety when it comes to seasons. The continent swings from sun-drenched chaos in July to near-empty ...

“Praying alongside the Holy Father in the Sistine Chapel and being installed as a Confrater of the great basilica of unity St Paul’s outside the Walls as were the English monarchs of the ...

Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, declaring him a doctor of the ...

Cardinal Nichols was in Rome for the state visit of the King and Queen to the Holy See. “Rarely have I attended ceremonies which were so full of historical ...

Pope Leo XIV's recognition of St. John Henry Newman as a "doctor of the church" will be an ecumenical celebration, a sign of esteem for the excellence and ongoing relevance of his teaching, first as ...

In Rome, the sweet life unfolds between antiquity, art, and modernity. Whether it’s the delicious Italian cuisine, the ...

The controversy that had been swirling around Prince Andrew became a crisis for the Royal Family, and in King Charles’s ...