The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

Large numbers of Hezbollah followers flocked to Beirut's largest sports stadium on Sunday to attend a mass funeral of their ...

The students live inside the Vatican and attend classes on several ... The young men and women also venture outside the city state to learn from some of Rome’s ancient sites and historic churches.

These may be placed onto and inside of a wide range of structures ... Sister Raffaella Petrini will become the first woman to lead the Vatican City State governorate when she takes office March ...

Senior U.S. and Russian officials agreed yesterday not only to work together on ending the war in Ukraine, but also to ...

Italian media outlet Il Sole, citing sources inside the Gemelli Hospital ... as Secretary General of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, making her the top-ranking woman in the Vatican ...

A couple of hours before I join Trafalgar Tours’ seven-day Italian Holiday, I meet an older American woman on the edge of tears. She tells me that she can’t believe she is in Rome, that the city is so ...

After the BAFTAS, more people might be interested in checking out Conclave and The Brutalist - or learning enough about them to fill out Oscar ballots.

A British court has largely backed the Vatican and refused to declare that a London-based financier acted in “good faith” in ...

Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...

Pope Francis rested overnight in the hospital, the Vatican said Sunday, adding that his night “passed peacefully.” ...