The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican ...

H is Holiness Pope Francis —the 266th bishop of Rome, supreme pontiff of the Universal Church, sovereign of the Vatican City ...

One of their places had to be the Vatican Hill—its name a derivation ... of popes have made this center of faith into a center of culture and art as well. Architects, painters, and sculptors ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican had hinted the controversial keffiyeh would be put back in the Nativity scene on Christmas Eve. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A provisional document published ... have deeply rooted homosexual tendencies or support the so-called gay culture.” The Italian bishops’ document quotes directly ...

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