From now on, the vast trove of documents, manuscripts and papyrus of popes past will be officially known as the Vatican Apostolic Archive.

Pope Francis Moves Part of Vatican Library and Archive to Rome Seminary The building where the documents and books will be housed in the future is also used for Rome’s major seminary.

Historians will begin combing the archives of the world's most contentious pope on Monday, hoping to glean why Pius XII stayed silent during the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust.

The Secret Apostolic Archives. Within the stone and steel reinforced walls are vaults, climate controlled rooms and over 50 miles of shelves.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has declared that the Vatican Secret Archive isn’t so secret after all. Francis today officially changed the name of the Holy See archive to remove what he ...