Emilio Morenatti, chief photographer in Spain for The Associated Press, arrived in St. Peter’s Square before sunrise to wait ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

As the pallbearers approached with Francis atop their shoulders, the faithful in rows behind, Morenatti used an extendable ...

Pinky also took me to the Musee d’Orsay, where she has a membership so we got in free. I love free. It’s jam packed full of Impressionist masterpieces and I could have spent a month there. She likes ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

Explore 10 fairytale villages like Hallstatt, Austria, Bibury, England, and Colmar, France. These spots offer scenic ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's first Latin American leader, died on Monday (Apr 21), and a conclave will be held next ...

For months, the pontiff spoke by telephone almost every night with people sheltering in a Catholic church in the battered ...

Overwhelmed by a surge in participants, organizers of the traditional Pentecost pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres were forced ...

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

French left-wing figures, from Jean-Luc Mélenchon to François Hollande, embraced the 'progressive' pope who had increasingly ...

Cardinals have been summoned to Rome for the first of a series of 'general congregations,' during which they will decide on ...