For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope ...

Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

Artists have captured the hidden world of papal elections for centuries, turning secrecy into spectacle for the public.

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...