For years, the mostly closed-off lives of the nuns living in a retirement home in Raiano, a mountain village in Italy’s Abruzzo region, followed much the same daily rhythm. They woke early, prayed, went to the chapel, had lunch, and perhaps whiled away the afternoon reading. But their routine switc»»»

He looks like any other toddler - bright eyes, soft curls and an angelic grin. But the child in this photograph would grow into a man whose influence would one day stretch across continents. The black and white image, featured in a recent documentary, captures him long before the world knew his nam»»»

Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV on Sunday created seven new saints. Bells rang out over St Peter's Square for the ceremony, which saw him canonise an ex-occultist priest, Bartolo Longo, alongside a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea, an archbishop killed in the Armenian genocide, a Venezuelan "doctor o»»»

Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV on Sunday created seven new saints -- among them a onetime Satanic priest who rediscovered his Christian faith. Bells rang out over St Peter's Square for the ceremony, which saw him canonise that ex-occultist priest, Bartolo Longo, alongside a lay catechist from Papua New»»»

Sister Albertine, a youthful French Catholic nun, stood outside the Vatican, phone in hand, ready to shoot more videos for her hundreds of thousands of followers online. As per AFP, the 29-year-old nun, whose secular name is Albertine Debacker, is one of hundreds of Catholic influencers in Rome for»»»

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night due to higher-than-expected turnout, closing the basilica for just an hour Thursday morning for cleaning. The basilica is bathed in a hus»»»

VISAKHAPATNAM: In a solemn and historic ceremony attended by thousands, Most Rev Udumala Bala was officially installed as the new Archbishop of Visakhapatnam on Thursday evening. The installation was led by the Papal Ambassador to India and Nepal, His Excellency Most Rev. Leopoldo Girelli, at a gra»»»

Nuns on Monday pray in front of the statue of Pope John Paul II at the entrance to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome where Pope Francis is hospitalized. Photo by Riccardo Antimiani/EPA-EFE March 3 (UPI) -- Pope Francis suffered two episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency and went back on a ventilato»»»

  Pope Francis, who has been in hospital for two weeks with double pneumonia, is in a “stable” condition, with no repeat of the previous day’s breathing crisis, the Vatican said Saturday. The 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church is still receiving o ... »»»

ROME: Pope Francis, who has been in hospital for two weeks with double pneumonia, is in a "stable" condition, with no repeat of the previous day's breathing crisis, the Vatican said on Saturday (Mar 1). The 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church is still receiving oxygen, but has no fever, has bee»»»

Pope 'stable', no repeat of breathing crisis: Vatican Pope Francis, who has been in hospital for two weeks with double pneumonia, is in a "stable" condition, with no repeat of the previous day's breathing crisis, the Vatican said Saturday. Pope 'stable', no repeat of breathing crisis: Vatican The 8»»»

Doctors, nuns, and dozens of faithful gathered Wednesday at the chapel of Rome’s Gemelli Hospital to attend a special mass for Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized with a lung infection. Cardinal Baldassarre Reina, the Pope’s vicar general for the Diocese of Rome, led the service, offering prayer»»»

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis's ninth night in hospital was peaceful, the Vatican said Sunday, the day after revealing the 88-year-old was in a "critical" condition.The pope had on Saturday suffered a prolonged respiratory attack and required blood transfusions, the Vatican said that evening, while a»»»