Just outside the city walls of Tomar, the last Portugese town to be commissioned for construction by the Knights Templar, lies a small church with a suprisingly important connection to this once ...

An unholy war is brewing in the Catholic Church, said Paola Totaro in The ... Sister Raffaella Petrini, to run the Vatican City State – the first time a woman has ever been given the role.

Vatican City is not only Europe’s smallest country but the smallest in the world by size and population. It is situated in Rome and is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, it is ...

In an interview with Vatican News, the cardinal specified that this document is addressed to the Eastern Churches ... capital of the world), was also a city in which the Easterners identified ...