Appearing publicly in street clothes for the first time as pontiff, Pope Francis went into St. Peter’s Basilica to pray and ...

Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 ...

After five weeks of hospitalization with pneumonia, including moments where he came close to death, Pope Francis is back at home in the Vatican ... many speculated that life was about to imitate art.

For the third consecutive year, the Holy See will have its own pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale event in Italy.

Francis celebrated Mass with other ... of his 10th-floor hospital suite to see their art. They offered encouragement, wishing that the pope get well soon. One boy with a boisterous group of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A frail Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after a ... cardinal to place in front of the Salus populi Romani icon. The Byzantine-style painting on wood is revered by ...

A frail Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday ... The Byzantine-style painting on wood is revered by Romans and is so important to Francis that he has chosen to be buried in the basilica ...

These were placed before the Salus Populi Romani, a Byzantine-style painting on ... putting Francis "in danger of his life", said Dr Sergio Alfieri, head of the Pope's medical team.

Francis celebrated Mass with other ... of his 10th-floor hospital suite to see their art. They offered encouragement, wishing that the pope get well soon. One boy with a boisterous group of ...

Pope Francis appears at a window of the Gemelli hospital before ... basilica's cardinal to place in front of the Salus populi Romani icon. The Byzantine-style painting on wood is revered by Romans and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A frail Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on ... The Byzantine-style painting on wood is revered by Romans and is so important to Francis that he has chosen to be buried ...