Here’s a look at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Facts The full name of the country is State of Vatican City. It stands on ...

The pope's return home, after the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy and the second-longest in recent papal ...

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VATICAN CITY -- A weak and frail Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican from the hospital on Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia, making a surprise stop at ...

VATICAN CITY — A frail Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after a five-week hospitalization for life-threatening double pneumonia, and he made a surprise stop at his favorite ...

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(AP Photo/Marco Ravagli)(Marco Ravagli / AP) VATICAN CITY — A frail Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after a five-week hospitalization for life-threatening double pneumonia ...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti - the archpriest of St Peter’s Basilica and vicar general of the Pope for Vatican City - led the daily prayers for him in St Peter’s Square earlier this evening.

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...