Vatican City Science & Technology News

A 1567 celestial globe showing the main Ptolemaic constellations attributed to Giovanni Vanosino is displayed at the exhibit "Astrum 2009: Astronomy and Instruments" at the Vatican Museum, in Vatican City, Tuesday Oct. 13, 2009. Rudimentary telescopes, celestial globes and original...

African cardinals denounced the "cultural imperialism" of wealthy countries in their aid, trade and health care policies for Africa, saying Wednesday that the West's promotion of abortion rights and condoms is destroying the continent's moral fabric.

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Francis Collins , director of the National Institutes of Health , to the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences . Collins, 59, is the geneticist who led the Human Genome Project , the international research project...

Rudimentary telescopes, celestial globes and original manuscripts by Galileo are going on view at the Vatican Museums as part of an exhibit marking the 400th anniversary of the astronomer's first celestial observations. "Astrum 2009: Astronomy and Instruments" traces the history...

Earlier this year, the Vatican reported that the continent was producing priests at a higher rate than any other part of the world, with ordinations rising by 27.6 percent in 2007. Yet African Catholics suffer no less than others from...