After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

Francis loved public transportation, but like Popes before him, he was unconditionally courted by Italy's automakers and was subsumed by the country's love of motorsport. Pope Francis will be ...

In India, Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai served as a close adviser to Pope Francis. Though other nations are gaining influence in the College of Cardinals, Italy still retains the largest ...

BARI, Italy — When leaders of the world's leading ... guest to talk about the risks posed by artificial intelligence: Pope Francis. This is the first G7 summit to feature a pope as an invited ...

Top-flight soccer matches in Italy and Argentina were postponed after the death of Pope Francis on Monday. The Buenos Aires club that the Argentine pontiff supported throughout his life was also ...

By Emma Bubola Two of Italy’s most powerful octogenarians, Pope Francis and Silvio Berlusconi, whose health conditions have in recent years kept the country in suspense, were both in the ...

ROME — Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Eve Mass before ... far more than the 200 allowed in 2020 when Italy was in a full Christmas lockdown. But the number is a fraction of the capacity ...

Seth Doane is an award-winning CBS News correspondent based in Rome, Italy since 2016. Doane has covered terrorist attacks and breaking news across Europe, traveled with Pope Francis as part of ...

Rome — Pope Francis warned Friday that Europe is mired ... Speaking at an annual conference on birth rates alongside Italy's right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Francis called on ...