A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th ...

Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

Security staff at the Vatican have apprehended a man after he jumped on to the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica and damaged ...

At St. Peter's, Michelangelo's Pietà is now protected behind bulletproof glass. Just beside it, at at 7 p.m. Rome time, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door, or Porta Santa, symbolizing the path to ...

This is not a book for readers interested in Michelangelo’s role in St. Peter’s. For that, readers might look instead to William Wallace’s excellent “Michelangelo, God’s Architect” (2019).

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping ... The basilica has put in new protective glass in front of Michelangelo’s Pieta sculpture, which was ...