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Pontiff faces several days in hospital. Pope Francis has a respiratory infection and will need to spend "a few days" in hospital, the Vatican confirmed on Wednesday evening. The pontiff was admitted to Rome's Gemelli...
Cardinals can no longer live rent-free in Vatican. Pope Francis has ended the practice of allowing cardinals and senior church officials to live rent-free in Vatican-owned properties, as part of new cost-saving measures...
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Pell's 2018 conviction for child sex abuse was later overturned. Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s highest ranking Catholic prelate, died in Rome on Tuesday evening at the age of 81. Pell was the most senior Catholic...
Former pope's tomb is in crypt of St Peter's. The tomb of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI can be visited in the Vatican crypt, beneath St Peter’s Basilica, from Sunday 8 January. The public can visit the former pope's tom...
Pope Francis on Saturday paid tribute to his "dearest" predecessor Benedict XVI, who died earlier in the day aged 95. Pope Francis paid homage Saturday to "noble" and "kind" ex-pope Benedict XVI, who has died at the a...
Pope Francis will preside over the funeral for former pope Benedict XVI, who has died at the age of 95, on January 5, the Vatican said Saturday. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies in Vatican at 95 "On Thursday January...
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. How to dress for the Vatican  "We are distraught.....
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 at 09.34 on Saturday 31 December, the Holy See press office announced....
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...
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Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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. Th...
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...
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,...
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. Th...
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