On 22 June 1985 in Riccione, the Italy women’s national team played its first ever Test match. The opponents? France, who the ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday:Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

The Vatican had announced that the basilica would be open until midnight, but then indicated it would extend the hours due to ...

Advocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis ' top priorities. His papacy saw a refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, ...

southern Italy, Monday, July 8, 2013. (Alessandra Tarantino / AP) July 8: Makes first pastoral trip outside Rome, visiting the Italian island of Lampedusa and condemns the “globalisation of ...

Pope Francis was thankful that he was able to greet throngs of people in St. Peter’s Square on Easter, a day before he died, though he ...

The Rev. Dan Hess, who studied in Rome while Pope Francis began his papacy, described the pope's call to shake things up as ...

July 8, 2013: Makes first trip outside Rome to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa ... more responsive to ordinary faithful during which women are allowed to vote alongside bishops for the first ...

Pope Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by ...

VATICAN CITY, April 18 (Reuters) - Pope Francis, still recovering from double pneumonia, did not attend an annual procession on Friday at Rome's Colosseum ... and the place of women in the ...

Here are some of the key words and phrases that will be used throughout the interregnum, especially the conclave to elect the ...