Visitors must request admission in advance online, and the 15 euro admission fee includes the catalogue. The Apostolic Library is separate from the Vatican Secret Archives, recently renamed the ...

Some places naturally invite curiosity, and the Vatican Archives are one of them. Beneath Vatican City sits a vast collection of documents that track centuries of political, religious, and cultural ...

Pope Francis has called for the expansion of the Vatican library and archives to a building outside Vatican City to make more “available this precious patrimony.” In a letter dated Oct. 29 and issued ...

On a visit to the Papal Library and the Vatican’s Secret Archives this morning, Pope Benedict came to the defense of those whose work involves the case of Pope Pius XII. Accusations have been made by ...

ROME — The Vatican’s Apostolic Library, which is home to ancient manuscripts, rare books and reading rooms for scholars is opening its doors to the general public with a small new exhibition space ...

ROME — Secret negotiations between Heinrich Himmler — the “architect” of the Holocaust — and a Swiss Catholic politician, hired by a Jewish woman and helped by an Italian papal nuncio, may have ...

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*Related video on a Holocaust survivor’s account of liberation. VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted secret archives are all that secret: It ...

Pope Francis has appointed Salesian Father Mauro Mantovani the next prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library. The Italian priest, 57, succeeds Father Cesare Pasini, who served as prefect from 2007 and ...