VATICAN CITY — Ten thousand hours. This is how long it takes to digitally analyze, map and conserve a marble statue, which could well be 2,000 years old. The work is not about restoring the statue to ...

“Of all the works of antiquity that escaped destruction,” German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once said of the Apollo Belvedere, a beloved sculpture from the Vatican ...

Archbishop Bernard Hebda extended an invitation to the exhibit, a “very special celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis,” in a video announcement Oct. 13.

Pope Leo XIV fulfilled a promise made by the late Pope Francis to return to Canada’s Indigenous communities ...

The Octagonal Courtyard of the Pio-Clementine Museum houses the oldest and most storied part of the Vatican’s vast collection ...

This return is the culmination of a movement that went on for years, led by the indigenous communities of Canada, to which ...

Right or wrong, best or worst – they’re opinions, subjective and open to interpretation. But when it comes to talking about our two experiences visiting the Vatican Museum on different trips to Rome, ...

The entrance to the Chiaramonti gallery in the Vatican Museums is seen in this 2020 file photo. (Credit: CNS photo/Cindy Wooden.) Listen ROME – Nearly 50 employees of the Vatican Museums have ...