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Catholics and tourists visiting St Peter's Square on Saturday expressed sadness and admiration for former pope Benedict XVI, following news of his death aged 95.
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Former pontiff passed away in Vatican almost a decade after he stood down.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died aged 95 at his Vatican City residence on at 09.34 on Saturday 31 December, the Holy See press office announced....
English-language religious services in Rome during the 2022 Christmas season.
We have put together a list of the times of Christmas religious services and Masses in English in Rome for 2022. For the programme of Pope Fr...
A short guide to Christmas cribs and Nativity scenes to visit in Rome over the festive season.100 PresepiThe 2022 edition of 100 Presepi, Rome's international nativity crib exhibition, takes place under the colonnade in...
2022 Christmas schedule at St Peter's.
Pope Francis will celebrate the 'Midnight Mass' at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Christmas Eve at 19.30, the same time as last year.
Despite its name, the Christmas Eve...
Pontiff saddened by death of German homeless man in the shadow of St Peter's Basilica.
Pope Francis has prayed for Burkhard Scheffler, a 61-year old homeless man, who died on Thursday night near the colonnade of St Pete...
Centuries-old tree to stay in forest after last-minute reprieve.
The majestic silver fir that had been destined to become the Vatican's Christmas tree in St Peter's Square this year has been spared from the chop after a...
100 Presepi returns to colonnade of Piazza S. Pietro.
The 2022 edition of 100 Presepi, Rome's international Nativity crib exhibition, is scheduled to take place under the colonnade of St Peter's Square from 8 December u...
Christmas tree in Piazza S. Pietro to be lit up on 3 December.
This year's Christmas tree in the Vatican will be a 30-m high silver fir from the small mountain village of Rosello in Italy's central Abruzzo region.
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Colosseum closed to visitors on 25 October.Pope Francis will join other religious leaders at a prayer service for peace at Rome’s Colosseum on the afternoon of Tuesday 25 October.
During his Angelus at the Vatican on Su...
Video display at St Peter's every night until 16 October.
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli inaugurated a two-week light show on the façade of St Peter's Basilica, telling the story of the first pope, at the Vatican on Sunda...
Pontiff addresses retirement rumours in interview.
Pope Francis said that in the event of an eventual resignation from the papacy he would live in Rome, ruling out a return to his native Argentina or staying in the Vati...
Swiss Guards have protected popes for more than 500 years.
Each year on 6 May the Vatican holds a pomp-filled ceremony to swear in new recruits into the Pontifical Swiss Guards, among the oldest standing armies in the w...
Pontiff resumes Holy Thursday prison tradition for first time in two years.
Pope Francis visited a prison near Rome to preside over a Holy Thursday Mass during which he washed and kissed the feet of 12 prisoners.
The...
Via Crucis returns to Colosseum for first time in two years.
A Ukrainian family and a Russian family will carry the cross together during one of the stations of the Via Crucis ceremony led by Pope Francis at the Colosse...
Faithful return to St Peter's Square for first Palm Sunday Mass since 2019.
St Peter's Square has been filled with thousands of chairs for the first time in more than two years as the Vatican resumes papal events open t...
Via Crucis ceremony to take place at Colosseum on Good Friday.
Papal events including the pope's weekly general audience are set to resume in Piazza S. Pietro after more than two years as Italy begins to lift its covid-...
Pontiff touched on several themes close to his papacy. Here are some of the main points.
Pope Francis was a guest of the Italian television talk show Che tempo che fa on Sunday night, discussing a wide range of themes,...
Italy News: Rome gets ready to host Jubilee Year 2025.
Rome's centre-left mayor Roberto Gualtieri has been named 'extraordinary commissioner' for the Vatican's Jubilee Year 2025 in the Italian capital.
The mayor was...
Pontiff promotes adoption and laments "demographic winter."
Pope Francis has returned to the theme of couples not having children, suggesting there is a "certain selfishness" in those who substitute pets for kids.
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