Francis, who rejected much of the pomp traditionally associated with the papacy during his 12-year reign, had requested to be ...

At 7pm local time (6pm BST) public access to the queue to visit Francis’s coffin officially closed after it was visited by ...

Planning a trip to Rome is all about preparation. The Eternal City is full of history, architecture, and culture. It’s more ...

Founder of Atelier Lavs, the designer, perfumer, and artist has crafted liturgical vestments for both Pope Benedict and the ...

Rome's Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepare the vestments for the new pope, but this time say they have not been asked by ...

The death of Pope Francis has shone a light on the wealth of the Pontiff and the mind-boggling fortune controlled by the Vatican itself. Pope Francis’ net worth has been revealed following the news of ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we're dead ...

Filippo Sorcinelli, who has been working with the Supreme Pontiff's Office for Liturgical Celebrations for twenty years, has ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 2,900-year-old factory that produced Tyrian purple dye — a luxurious commodity for ...

Most famous as the hometown of Shakespeare’s tragic couple Romeo and Juliet, Verona isn’t typically one of the first cities ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...