(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino ... while the Vatican defended it as the best deal it could get before Beijing closed the door entirely. Francis defended the church’s opposition to artificial ...

Pope Francis was moved Wednesday morning to St. Peter’s Basilica to lie in state for three days of public mourning for the ...

Image Jorge Mario Bergoglio in an undated photo ... church doors that had for decades been sealed shut. Jason Horowitz is the Rome bureau chief for The Times, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece ...

At 7:33 a.m. on May 9, 1980, the 606-foot Summit Venture crashed into the western span of the bridge during a storm.

plan the conclave to elect his successor and make other decisions about running the Catholic Church. Here's the latest: In a post on X late Wednesday, Yaron Sideman shared a photo of himself in St ...

My partner Mike and I are at the tail end of a wonderful Mediterranean Odyssey: a 13-day, six-country cruise aboard Viking ...

Once inside, the pallbearers stopped in front ... in Lesbos, Greece, and bringing 12 migrants home with him. “The guiding thread of his mission was also the conviction that the church is a ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia ... border and traveling to a refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, when he brought 12 migrants home with him. “The guiding thread of his mission was also the conviction that the ...

“What’s happened today was my worst fear — a total fabricated internet lie so basic that a middle schooler could have constructed it,” said Reid, who spoke while standing in front of ...

Combine a visit to Athens with time on one of the popular islands or if you prefer just to relax, then an island is the best place ... worth a photo as well. Dia island is off the north coast of Crete ...

In the charming town of Aurora, Oregon sits a wonderland of historic treasures that will make your salvage-loving heart skip several beats. Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage is the kind of place that ...