Streets of Rome fill with gossip after latest Pope news - Rumours have taken on a life of their own, fuelled by conspiracy ...

The Ministry of Antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his ...

High court clears businessman of conspiracy in ‘trial of the century’ but insists Holy See was ‘utterly let down’ ...

Medieval Irish history professor at Trinity College Dublin, Seán Duffy, that while a crown specifically may not rest in the ...

The pope was admitted to hospital on February 14 where he is fighting a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia in both ...

Late on Thursday, the Vatican said Pope Francis is "slightly improving" and his blood analyses are stable, in the latest sign ...

Following the death of a pope, or in rare cases of resignation such as with Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican convenes a papal conclave, in which the College of Cardinals come together to elect the ...

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

Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

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