A series of 2025 Vatican Vacant Seat stamps are on display in the Filitalia stamps, coins, and souvenirs shop next to the Vatican walls, in Rome, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew ...

Whether it's black smoke or white smoke billowing from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel, the souvenir business in the Vatican is thriving even without news of a new pope. "Rome is always touristy ...

VATICAN CITY – Police raided a storeroom near St. Peter’s Square and seized a cache of Vatican souvenirs and trinkets including flags, bracelets and key rings bearing Pope Francis’ image ...

Vatican City is the world’s smallest fully independent nation-state. It is ruled by the pope, who is the head of the Holy See, the central government of the Catholic Church.

The pope needed an electric vehicle he could take abroad without having to take it apart for transport. Club Car obliged.

The Conversation U.S. asked Daniel Speed Thompson, a theologian at the University of Dayton, for some insight into Vatican City. Who are the most powerful people at the Vatican, besides the pope?

VATICAN CITY – A line of tourists and pilgrims slowly wound through the cool and crisp weather in St. Peter’s Square as word spread that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had died. “The pope is ...

A series of 2025 Vatican Vacant Seat stamps are on display in the Filitalia stamps, coins, and souvenirs shop next to the Vatican walls, in Rome, Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

Ermenegildo Santarossa sits in his Filitalia stamps, coins, and souvenirs shop next to the Vatican walls, in Rome, Tuesday, April 29, 2025.