Tributes and shows of affection towards Francis are taking place during these days of 'sede vacante', while the city is ...

As cardinals gather in Rome this week to select the next pope, global news networks covering every twist and turn will be ...

The two are passing through Rome on vacation and will continue to southern Italy. But they are practicing Catholics and were ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

As 135 cardinals meet in Rome to decide the next pope, questions about the legacy of the last one will loom large over their ...

Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions. View on ...

They seem fundamentally united in finding a pope who will be able to make the 2,000-year-old church credible and relevant ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church. That's more than any nation except Italy, home to 17 of the electors who ...

World leaders, cardinals and at least 250,000 of the faithful gathered in the Vatican on Saturday morning to bid farewell to ...

Fiorello Maffei, a 58-year-old who lives in London, returned to Italy for the now postponed canonisation of Carlo, a Londoner ...

The modest tomb draws huge queues on the first day of public viewing a day after tens of thousands attended his funeral.