Check into the Hotel Due Torri, the city’s most historic grand dame with an impressive collection of antiques. Sip local ...

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The deceased pope will be dressed in his simple white cassock and red vestments, then placed in a simple wooden coffin. This ...

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

The night before the funeral, the camerlengo will preside over the closing and sealing of the coffin in the presence of other ...

Dignitaries and world leaders will attend the pope’s funeral. But the thousands of people lining up to see Francis on ...

The funeral Mass will likely be celebrated inside St Peter’s, because of the late winter weather, and there is also the ...

Easter is the most important festival of the Christian calendar, and so it is unsuprising that most of England’s ...

The death of Pope Francis paves the way for one of the most secretive events in human history, as depicted in the papal ...

here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient documents that no longer exist: Sibylline Books Roman leaders consulted these oracular sayings during political crises for perhaps 900 years.