Cliff Notes – Vatican conclave will elect successor to Pope Francis A historic conclave will convene on May 7, with 133 cardinals from 71 countries,…
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The conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor will commence on 7 May, with 135 cardinal electors participating in the voting process.
Cliff Notes – Pope buried in Rome Pope Francis passed away at the age of 88 on Easter Monday 250,000 mourners gathered for his funeral…
Cliff Notes A large crowd gathered at St Peter’s Square early in the morning for an extraordinary funeral, with long queues forming before dawn, marking…
Cliff Notes World leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer, Donald Trump, and Emmanuel Macron, have gathered in Rome ahead of Pope Francis’s funeral, with 200,000 attendees…
On Saturday 25 April 2025, the world will say their farewells to Pope Francis, a pontiff who will be remembered for all his work with the poor, for modernising the Catholic Church and for bringing people of all faiths together. Pope Francis’s funeral will get underway tomorrow in Rome, in breaking with tradition he will have a much simpler affair than many of his predecessors.
The passing of Pope Francis has left Catholics, particularly in Africa, mourning the loss of a humble leader known for his connection to the grassroots of the church.
Christians in Gaza’s only Catholic church honoured Pope Francis, who consistently reached out to them for over a year during the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, culminating in his last phone call on Saturday.
The King and Queen’s state visit to the Vatican has been postponed as Pope Francis recovers from pneumonia, according to Buckingham Palace.
Pope Francis no longer requires non-invasive ventilation, indicating improvement in his respiratory condition, as confirmed by the Vatican.
Pope Francis has been photographed for the first time since his hospitalisation over a month ago, celebrating mass in a wheelchair.
Pope Francis Faces Setbacks in Pneumonia Battle. The Pope is currently experiencing a difficult phase in his health recovery, suffering two acute breathing crises that…
Pope Francis suffered an “isolated breathing crisis” on Friday, the Vatican said in a statement. The development marks a setback in the 88-year-old pontiff’s two-week…
A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.
“This is the first cardinal to be prosecuted in a Vatican criminal court”, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Rome, Italy, Seema Gupta.” Cardinal Angelo Becciu is the most senior Vatican official to face such charges; “the 75-year-old cardinal was a former advisor to Pope Francis, so he was somebody who would meet with the pope and he was seen as a papal contender”.
The Roman emperor Nero is understood to have had a deep love of drama and the performing arts but the exact location of his theatre has been a mystery until now.