Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches, was chosen by the pope to lead the Good Friday liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica. The Vatican's long custom is that the ...

Pope Francis is going without supplemental oxygen for longer periods and is continuing therapy to recover his voice and to ...

Pope Francis denounced the "appalling humanitarian catastrophe" in Sudan in Sunday's written Angelus prayer. It is the ...

Earlier this morning the King and Queen received a ceremonial welcome that included a spectacular flypast of the Red Arrows and their Italian counterparts, the Frecce Tricolour.

ROME (AP) — Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who ...

Meanwhile, no trip to Rome would be complete without a visit to the Colosseum ... the Arch of Constantine with the Meta ...

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Sergio Alfieri told The Associated Press that the Pope was "very lively,’’ after visiting the pope at his apartment in the Santa Marta Domus on Wednesday ... release from Rome’s Gemelli ...

Italian defence sources told our Europe producer in Rome Simone Baglivo the two soldiers ... No special arrangements have been made at the Domus Santa Marta, the Vatican hotel next to the basilica ...

The 88-year-old pope spent 38 days in Rome’s Gemelli hospital ... Francis then returned to his home at the Domus Santa Marta, a Vatican hotel where he has lived in a two-room suite since ...

Pope Francis' surprise visit to St. Peter's Basilica to pray and see ongoing restoration work is a clear sign that his ...