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This image released by the Italian Culture Ministry on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, shows the oil-on-canvas painting “Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini” by Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (16th century). (Credit: Alessio Panunzi and Alberto Novelli/Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Ministero della Cultura via AP.)

Italy buys Caravaggio painting of future Pope for about $35 million, one of its largest payouts for a single work

  • Mar 12
  • Giada Zampano
Restorer Domiziana Marchioro polishes the altar od St. Sebastian inside the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, Monday, March 9, 2026. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

EU recovery funds fuel frenzied restorations around Rome, including at famed basilica

  • Mar 10
  • Trisha Thomas
The Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie, best known as the home of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper," sits in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (Credit: María Teresa Hernández/AP.)

At the convent of Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper,’ Dominican friars still live, pray and welcome visitors

  • Mar 10
  • María Teresa Hernández
The Cologne Cathedral is seen in Cologne, Germany, July 6, 2004. (Credit: Hermann J. Knippertz/AP.)

Cologne Cathedral, one of Germany’s best-known landmarks, to charge tourists for admission

  • Mar 6
  • Associated Press
The sculpted bust inside the Basilica of Saint Agnes Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy, which, in light of the new studies by Italian researcher Valentina Salerno, may be reattributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Claims of ‘rediscovered’ Michelangelos unsettle Renaissance experts

  • Mar 5
  • Nicole Winfield

Spanish actress’s public attack on Church shows “uneasy conscience”

  • Mar 5
  • Fionn Shiner

Church should take a ‘critical and prophetic stance’ towards polarizing rhetoric, says Spanish archbishop

  • Mar 2
  • Fionn Shiner
In this photo provided by Ukraine’s 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, a local passes by a destroyed apartment building following an Russian air strike in the town of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (Credit: Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine’s 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP.)

On anniversary of Russian invasion, Major Archbishop says Pope Leo understands Ukraine

  • Feb 24
  • Charles Collins
Revelers take part in the annual flour war marking the end of the Carnival season on Clean Monday in Galaxidi, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of Athens, Monday Feb. 23, 2026, starting the 40-day Christian Lent fast leading to Easter. (Credit: Petros Giannakouris/AP.)

‘Flour war’ erupts in Greek seaside town as revelers celebrate the start of Lent

  • Feb 24
  • Petros Giannakouris, 
    Lefteris Pitarakis, Associated Press
Members of Coro Terzo Tempo gather inside the church of Sant’Antonio Abate before a concert in Milan, Italy, on Feb. 18, 2026. (Credit: María Teresa Hernández/AP.)

Milan church concert strikes a chord for inclusion ahead of Winter Paralympics

  • Feb 24
  • María Teresa Hernández, 
    Associated Press

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