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Men wash the steps St. Peter’s Basilica before the arrival of the body of Pope Francis, who will lie in state at for three days, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Catholic faithful pay their final respects to Pope Francis as public viewing begins

April 23, 2025 at 2:12 p.m.

The body of Pope Francis was moved Wednesday morning to St. Peter’s Basilica for three days of public mourning for an Argentine pontiff remembered for his humble style, concern for...

Faithful gather for a rosary prayer for the late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Monday April 21, 2025 (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis worried about greeting crowd in St. Peter’s Square but was thankful he did, report says

April 22, 2025 at 4:15 p.m.

Pope Francis will be laid to rest Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter’s Basilica.

FILE – Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni holds a year-end press conference in Rome, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

President Donald Trump says he’s in ‘no rush’ to end tariffs as he holds talks with Italy’s Meloni

April 17, 2025 at 11:59 a.m.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is in “no rush” to reach any trade deals because of the revenues his tariffs are generating, but suggested while meeting with Italian...

Pope Francis arrives at the end of the mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Convalescing Pope Francis opens Holy Week with in-person greeting in St. Peter’s Square

April 13, 2025 at 8:37 a.m.

A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Happy Palm Sunday, Happy Holy Week,” in yet another reassuring...

Britain’s King Charles III, center, flanked by Ignazio LaRussa, President of the Italian Senate, left, and Lorenzo Fontana, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, addresses the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Pope Francis meets privately with King Charles and Queen Camilla during his Vatican convalescence

April 9, 2025 at 3:17 p.m.

Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Wednesday at the Vatican during the royal couple’s four-day state visit to Italy and on the occasion of...

Pope Francis arrives at the end of a mass in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Sunday, April 6, 2025, part of the jubilee of the sick and the health workers. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope makes surprise appearance at St. Peter’s Square, 2 weeks after leaving hospital

April 6, 2025 at 9:01 a.m.

Pope Francis made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and health workers on Sunday, marking his first public appearance at the...

Pope Francis appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope Francis’ doctors considered stopping treatment to ‘let him go’ after serious breathing crisis

March 25, 2025 at 5:41 p.m.

Pope Francis’ medical team briefly considered suspending treatment after a Feb. 28 breathing crisis but instead decided on an aggressive course that put his organs at risk.

Faithful participating in the Jubilee arrive in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, where they were supposed to say the Sunday’s Angelus prayer with Pope Francis who was admitted over a week ago at Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic and is in critical condition. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican releases first photograph of the pope in a month as he celebrates Mass in hospital chapel

March 16, 2025 at 1:36 p.m.

The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple Lenten liturgical vestments sitting in a wheelchair in front...

Tourists in the Areopagous hill as in the background stands the ancient Acropolis hill during a hot day in Athens, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Greece's Culture Ministry ordered the Acropolis closed for several hours in the middle of the day Wednesday, while authorities warned of extreme heat conditions across much of the country. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece shuts Acropolis, 2 firefighters killed in Italy as southern Europe swelters in a heat wave

July 17, 2024 at 3:15 p.m.

A heat wave across southern Europe forced authorities in Greece to close the Acropolis Wednesday for several hours and two firefighters died while putting out a fire in the Basilicata...

FILE – Amanda Knox attends a cocktail for the opening of the Innocence Project conference, in Modena, Italy, Thursday, June 13, 2019. Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that is the only charge against her that withstood five court rulings that ultimately cleared her in the brutal murder of her roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in the apartment they shared in the idyllic central Italian university town of Perugia. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Amanda Knox reconvicted of slander in Italy for accusing innocent man in roommate’s 2007 murder

June 5, 2024 at 8:37 a.m.

An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander Wednesday, quashing her hope of removing a legal stain against her that has persisted long after her exoneration in the brutal 2007...

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