Bankers’ best guesses about the Vatican’s wealth put it at $10 billion to $15 billion. Of this wealth, Italian stockholdings alone run to $1.6 billion, 15% of the value of listed shares on the ...

For decades, Vatican City has held the title of the world’s smallest country, but this long-standing geographic fact may soon change. In an historic announcement, the Prime Minister of Albania has ...

has put together most of the pieces of the Vatican financial puzzle in his book The Vatican Empire. He admits using devious means to crack the high secrecy surrounding the topic. Of late ...

The Vatican is on the brink of bankruptcy and may ... which commemorates the union between Christianity and the Roman Empire at the Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago. The Council laid the ...