Pope Francis has made a subtle change in the past year which emphasizes the truth of the feast we mark on Nov. 9 — namely that St. John Lateran, not St. Peter’s in the Vatican, is the ...

Discover why Vatican City, the heart of the Catholic Church, remains an independent city-state entirely surrounded by Rome.

Sometime between the 4th and 14th centuries, a Roman palace housed dozens of popes for hundreds of years. It existed long ...

The Lateran — not St. Peter’s in the Vatican — is the cathedral of Rome. Here are seven things to know about the Lateran on its 1,700th anniversary. Constantine, Cathedral and Council ...

For the first time in its 245-year history, a lay professor has been appointed rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, also known as the “Pope’s university.” ...

The Lateran Palace was once the site of a museum founded by the popes. The artworks of the Lateran Museum, which was closed in the 1970s, were given to the Vatican Museums.

The Lateran Basilica is packed with people; outside, in the square behind the barriers, other faithful follow the ceremony of opening the Holy Door on large screens, unable to find space inside.

Pope Francis appointed him as a councillor of the Vatican City State in 2014. The Lateran University was founded in 1773 by Clement XIV, after his suppression of the Jesuits.

Pope Francis has appointed the first layperson to head Rome's Pontifical Lateran University. The pope named Vincenzo Buonomo, 57, rector of the university, a Vatican press release announced June 2.

NELSON H. MINNICH, HEINRICH W. PFEIFFER, DE GRASSI'S 'CONCILIABULUM' AT LATERAN V: THE DE GARGIIS WOODCUT OF LATERAN V RE-EXAMINED, Archivum Historiae Pontificiae, Vol. 19 (1981), pp. 147-172 ...