Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Danny Sheehan, attorney and UFO expert, joins NewsNation as the Vatican welcomes its first American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV. Sheehan ...

The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted secret archives are all that secret: It has opened up the files of controversial World War II-era Pope Pius XII to scholars ...

Phone signals in Vatican City will be cut throughout the duration of the conclave, with one small exception Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto; Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Since the last conclave in 2013, ...

Pope Benedict XVI has claimed that he's resigning the papacy next week because of old age. But according to the major Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the real reason he resigned is because he did not ...

Step beyond the crowded Sistine Chapel and explore the Vatican Museums like never before. From the colossal Pinecone Courtyard to the lifelike Apoxyomenos and the dramatic Laocoön and His Sons, ...

Secrets, scandal, money, power and abuse -- and the Vatican. In a new special airing tonight on PBS’s Frontline, producer Antony Thomas takes a deep dive into the scandals that have rocked the church.

Some places naturally invite curiosity, and the Vatican Archives are one of them. Beneath Vatican City sits a vast collection of documents that track centuries of political, religious, and cultural ...

Pope Francis, the inheritor of a Catholic Church saddled with scandal, has spearheaded reforms to criminalize sexual violence against children and mete out tougher punishments for leaking Vatican ...

The Vatican has revealed that it maintains secret guidelines for priests who father children despite their vows of celibacy. "I can confirm that guidelines exist; it is a document for internal use," ...

The faint smell of incense and candle wax permeates the church of Sant’Apollinare near Rome’s famous Piazza Navona. The basilica is one of a handful of churches outside the walls of Vatican City owned ...