The Vatican is opening the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines.

Take the fast train from Lecce to Rome and you’ll see buildings recede, replaced by sea, shore and countryside.

Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed “God’s architect” for designing Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican.

Two popes who played instrumental roles in building the world's largest church now gaze at one another with renewed clarity in the apse of St. Peter's Basilica.

The statute depicts a man seated on a bench “who appears to be a homeless person” carrying only two possessions: a full backpack on his shoulder and a stick in one hand.

European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...