David Willey, who spent decades reporting from Rome for the BBC, reflects on the transformation of the Vatican under Francis ...

Several world leaders have confirmed their plans to be in attendance at the funeral of Pope Francis, scheduled for Saturday ...

A number of global leaders have announced they will travel to Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, which is likely to ...

The best hotels in Rome for nights in historic palaces and lavish city hideaways - From budget stalwarts to above-and-beyond ...

Navarrosa, who is currently writing his thesis on the pope’s 2016 encyclical 'Amoris Laetitia,' recalls meeting Francis in ...

Italy has deemed necessary to set binding conditions before clearing UniCredit's proposed bid for Banco BPM to avoid "even ...

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...

About 200 of the 266 men to hold the title of pope hailed from within the borders of Italy. Here is a look at others, like Pope Francis, who didn't.

Following the pope's death comes a period of mourning, followed by a funeral, a period of "congregations," and then the centuries-old, secretive process known as a conclave.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...