Insider art: Vatican sets up Biennale pavilion at Venice women’s jail
Pope Francis to attend installation that includes short film featuring Zoë Saldaña and Giudecca inmates Originally a convent dating to the 13th century, and once...
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Pope presides over Easter Vigil service after skipping Good Friday procession
Appearance comes a day after last-minute decision to miss previous service to ‘conserve his health’ Pope Francis presided over the Vatican’s somber Easter Vigil service...
Italy’s ruling party drafts law to ‘safeguard’ school nativity scenes
Brothers of Italy party plans law to ‘protect’ Christian traditions and prevent schools ‘modifying the essence of Christmas’ Italy’s ruling far-right party has identified a...
Pope Francis dismisses conservative Texas bishop and critic Joseph Strickland
Rare move comes after years of criticism from Strickland, a strong supporter of former US president Donald Trump Pope Francis has dismissed a bishop in...
Pope accepts resignation of Polish bishop after gay orgy scandal in diocese
Vatican did not say why Grzegorz Kaszak was resigning, but priest from his diocese faced criminal investigation The pope has accepted the resignation of a...
No 666 to Hel: Polish bus route drops ‘devil’s number’ after Christian protests
Operator announces route to town of Hel has been redesignated as No 669 – a change that has prompted public outcry There will be no...
Pope advised not to give Sunday blessing from hospital balcony
Prayer will instead be said in his suite after chief surgeon says Francis should avoid strain on abdomen Pope Francis’s recovery from surgery is going...
Vatican expels ‘rebel nuns’ for refusing to leave Italian monastery
Two nuns told they ‘disobeyed the church’ by trying to stay at seven-centuries-old site in Ravello The Vatican has expelled two cloistered sisters from the...
Benedict XVI funeral draws estimated 100,000 Catholics to St Peter’s Square
National leaders and royals among those gathered to see Pope Francis bury his predecessor An estimated 100,000 Catholics descended on St Peter’s Square for the...
Ex-pope Benedict XVI dies aged 95 – latest tributes and reaction
Vatican announces pope emeritus to lie in state in St Peter’s Basilica from Monday after passing away on Saturday morning Benedict XVI’s life in pictures...
