Fitzgerald, who spent his career in real estate private equity, said American donors — especially the younger generation — ...

Walking into St. Peter’s Basilica, there he was, depicted in a huge mural on a wall. He still wasn’t smiling, although he ...

Can Pope Leo XIV solve the Vatican funding crisis? Here’s how the Holy See manages money - The Vatican doesn’t tax its ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

where thousands of faithful and curious tourists are expected to watch for the white smoke that signals to the world the election of a new pope. As per the 1929 deal that created the Vatican City ...

People were like: ‘You’re crazy!’” said D’Eletto, who works at a Vatican City store. Asked how the world would receive an American pope, she said: “I hope they’ll love him.

Or so the joke goes in Rome, where 133 cardinal-electors – the largest group in history – have descended on Vatican City not just to ... from the outside world until they can agree on who ...

VATICAN CITY — President Trump has worked aggressively in his second term to tear at the fabric of America’s post-WWII alliance with Europe. But his decision to fly halfway around the world to ...

VATICAN CITY—A sea of mourners filled St. Peter ... made the Catholic Church more open, sometimes rankling world leaders and fellow clergymen—many of whom attended his funeral.

Photos released by the Vatican on Friday ... protect the Vatican City and the square where crowds of tens of thousands will be assembled. Although soldiers from the world’s smallest army are ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2023 ... 2% of its population being baptized Catholic. Europe follows with 39.6% and Oceania with 25.9 ...

Vatican City was set to join Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to become one of just eight countries in the world to generate 100% of its ...