The Vatican releases first images of Pope Francis, showing him in his casket with the Vatican secretary of state praying over ...

Photographer Federica Valabrega walked the streets of Rome and Vatican City, taking the pulse of people’s reactions to the ...

The life of Pope Francis, the first Latin American and first Jesuit to serve as the Roman Catholic Church’s pontiff, lasted ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

Unable to attend the Good Friday ceremony in person for the third consecutive year, the pope offered deep meditations for the ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).