The pope’s traditional blessing, “urbi et orbi,” was read by Archbishop Diego Ravelli, but Pope Francis later toured St.

Medardo Rosso (1858–1928), an Italian-French sculptor and photographer, influenced art around 1900. His work impacted sculpture history, though he remains less recognized today.

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Pope Francis on Wednesday held an audience with dozens of doctors, nurses and hospital staff who helped get him back to health after bronchial infections ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines, as cardinals were designated to take his place ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis has taken the first step toward making Antoni Gaudí, the famed architect of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, a saint. On Monday (April 14), Pope Francis ...

In the opening minutes of Prime’s new horror-comedy series The Bondsman, Hub Halloran (Kevin Bacon) gets himself killed by a man he was set up to capture. With his throat slit and his body now ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Kendal Francis was announced as the new city manager for the City of Muskogee. "We are excited to welcome Kendal to Muskogee," said Muskogee Mayor Patrick Cale. "His extensive ...

Theo Francis covers corporate news and executive compensation for The Wall Street Journal from Washington, D.C. He specializes in using a wide range of data as well as securities filings and other ...

Instead, it turned out to be the prelude to one of the most celebrated expressions of patriotic fervor in the young country’s history: Francis Scott Key’s composition of “The Star-Spangled ...