If the high number of repeat guests is any indication, Lancelot is one of the most beloved hotels in Rome. Warmth and ...

Off St. Peter’s Square next to the Vatican, a 19th-century palace was converted in 2020 into a homeless shelter by Pope ...

The longest conclave in history lasted almost three years following the death of Clement IV in November 1268, held in the papal palace at Viterbo, near Rome. From late 1269 the cardinals allowed ...

The baptism was quickly done. Afterward, the Roa family headed back to their neighborhood near Rome’s fabled Cinecittà movie studios for a small reception at a local restaurant. Hundreds of ...

ROME, April 26 — US President Donald Trump arrived in Rome yesterday for the funeral of Pope Francis, where he will brush shoulders with an array of world leaders on the unexpected first foreign trip ...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One at Fiumicino Airport, as they leave after attending the funeral Mass of Pope Francis, near Rome, Italy, April 26 ...

President Donald Trump gestures as he disembarks Air Force One at Fiumicino Airport, to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, near Rome, Italy, April 25, 2025. Nathan Howard/Reuters President Donald ...

Francis is breaking with recent tradition and will be buried in St. Mary Major, near Rome's main train station, where a simple tomb awaits him with just his name: Franciscus. As many as 300,000 ...

US president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump touched down in Rome last night as the world prepares mark Pope Francis' funeral. Trump is one of dozens of world leaders who jetted to ...

he opted to live in the Domus Santa Marta hotel rather than the lavish papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace, overlooking St. Peter’s Square. The choice spoke to his aversion to luxury, and an ...

ROME — With royals, presidents and hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful heading to Rome following Pope Francis’s death, Italy and the Vatican are rolling out a massive security plan.

But in the moments before his casket is interred in a simple tomb at the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome, it will be a group of people ... a push by many people to turn the building into a hotel ...