12K views · 897 reactions | Over 80 thousand artifacts – a testament of the peoples and cultures from every part of the world – are on exhibit in the new Anima Mundi Museum, previously known as the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums. An exhibit hall with open doors, without barriers, directed outward, it overturns the traditional idea of ‘museum’ and ‘conservation’. | Vatican News | Facebook

Over 50 years ago, St. Paul VI blessed statues of the Child Jesus brought by children to St. Peter’s Square during the Angelus. This tradition, now called “Bambinelli Sunday,” continues every 3rd Sunday of Advent. | EWTN Vatican