As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead ...

More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...

Passengers walk along a platform to board a train at Santa Justa railway station in Seville on April 29, 2025, the day after a massive power cut affecting the entire Iberian peninsula and the south of ...

His family roots belong to the small Italian village of Portacomaro, and, other than his siblings, he also has a 93-year-old cousin named Carla Rabezzana. He also has a niece named Cristina ...

Italy’s Civil Protection Department estimated ... Rome’s papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. A group of “poor and needy” will be present at the basilica to welcome the coffin, the ...

Two weeks after his surprise election as pontiff, Pope Francis carried out the Maundy Thursday ritual of washing and kissing ...

Jorge Bergoglio enters history as the first American Pope. During his time heading the Catholic Church, he reformed Vatican ...

The Associated Press notes Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin; Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the former archbishop of Manila in the Philippines; Archbishop of Bologna (Italy ...

He was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936 in the Flores district of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Italian immigrants ... and psychology at Santa Fe’s Colegio de la Inmaculada ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on December 17 1936 in the Flores district of Buenos Aires, the eldest of five children in a middle class family of Italian immigrants ... with the government of ...