"I saw Venus naked, doing her hair at the lake," says one scholar. Dec. 18, 2013— -- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. It is an eighth the size of New York's Central Park and is ...

The Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, and yet it is home to one of the world's largest religions: the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis, head of state of Vatican City, died on ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Jessica Mendoza: It was winter at the Vatican and Pope Francis was desperate.

Throughout his papacy, Francis took steps to appoint and integrate women into leadership roles in the Vatican. From the time he took office in 2013, the number of female employees working in the ...

Recently, the Vatican rolled out a major website redesign for the first time since its launch in the mid-1990s. One thing that caught my eye was that the link to the Catechism of the Catholic Church ...

The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one of the world’s most opaque ...

After greeting crowds on Easter Sunday, Pope Francis died on Monday morning. The frail 88-year-old, known as a humble reformer of the Catholic Church, greeted thousands in St. Peter's Square after ...