Novelist Dan Brown has peered often into the behind-the-scenes world of Roman Catholicism, including with “The Da Vinci Code” ...

It has been at the Vatican since the early 1500s, when Pope Julius II decided to bring the sculpture to the holy city. The ...

Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in fact, the Pope really needed someone to paint the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo ...

What do Julius Caesar, Pope Gregory XII and the Hebrew calendar have to do with one another? It’s a centuries long story that ...

Discovered in 1489 among the ruins of an ancient Roman house, the “Apollo Belvedere” was brought to the Vatican by Pope Julius II. Besides the carbon-fibre rod, the restorers also replaced the ...