Three keys to Saint Peter’s (19-13), the No. 15 seed in the Midwest, upsetting No. 2 seeded Tennessee (24-8): Deliver some early doubt to Tennessee by getting off to a fast start. The Saint Peter’s ...

VATICAN CITY - The Gospels say Jesus gave the apostle Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven, thereby entrusting him with the spiritual guidance of the faithful. Now the Vatican has lost them.

No body has ever been the subject of such detailed and delicate detective work as the remains of the onetime fisherman, Simon, whom Jesus renamed Peter. For though, according to tradition and Roman ...

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After excavations and forensic analysis, the Vatican says they reached a conclusion, ...

This is Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s depiction of the crucifixion of Saint Peter, who insisted on being crucified upside down he felt unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus.

One of the most identifiable places of worship on planet Earth is St. Peter’s Basilica on the Vatican Hill in Rome. It is the sanctuary and resting place of the chief apostle of Jesus Christ, Simon ...

The Vatican has announced that the completed restorations on the soaring baldacchino over the central altar of St. Peter’s Basilica designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini will be unveiled on Oct. 27.