With more than 900    churches, hundreds of palazzos, 10 World Heritage Sites and 280 fountains (the Trevi alone sees some 700,000 euros in coin donations every year), Rome can be an overwhelming city ...

A couple of hours before I join Trafalgar Tours’ seven-day Italian Holiday, I meet an older American woman on the edge of ...

The contemporary art installation was audible via speakers in the portico, or entrance, of St. Peter’s Basilica.

While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church ...

The “School of Arts and Crafts” of the Fabbrica di San Pietro is offering a free, six-month training course with a ...

The Vatican indicated that the pope was fighting a multiple-pronged infection requiring “adequate hospitalization.” ...

The Argentine pope, a known workaholic who keeps up a grueling pace despite his many ailments, was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli ...

Pope Francis was admitted on Friday with a respiratory infection. The announcement on Monday did not provide further detail, ...

Updates on Francis’ condition, which was said to be stable on Wednesday, have typically been spare, leaving plenty of room ...

Planning a trip to Italy this year? You’re likely going to have to consider your plans a bit more than in previous years, as this one’s special: it’s the Jubilee Year, a Roman Catholic religious event ...

As Pope Francis continued to show "some" improvement in his lab tests, the pontiff remained hospitalized with a respiratory ...

View of St Peter’s Square in Vatican City after Pope Francis hospitalised for bronchitis Watch live the view of St Peter's ...