The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

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

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 ...

ROME -- Pope Francis is continuing his recovery from pneumonia, eating breakfast out of bed on Thursday morning after a sixth ...

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As a lifelong artist, Patricia Mattozzi embraced one of the little-known traditions of iconography: never signing her work.

Former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger claims Treasurer Jim Chalmers is “nowhere” in the national debate on interest rate… ...