Pope Francis is now recovering in the Vatican, but what’s next for his papacy?
After five weeks of hospitalization with pneumonia, including moments where he came close to death, Pope Francis is back at ...
Pope Francis Arrives Home to Vatican After Five-Week Hospital Stay
Before leaving the hospital, the Pope gave a thumbs-up to the crowd after he was wheeled out onto the balcony.
Pope Francis returns to Vatican, but remains out of public view
After 38 days in hospital battling double pneumonia almost entirely out of sight, Pope Francis made his first public ...
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Explore Rome's Hidden Underworld, Where a City Lurks Beneath a City
Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...
Rome’s lesser-known ‘other Sistine Chapel’ is a frenzy of opulence
Entering the Sistine Chapel is an exercise in wonder. It is swathed in art, seemingly no expense spared, and there’s barely a ...
No Michelangelo, but Rome’s other Sistine Chapel is just as impressive
The extraordinary is everywhere in the Eternal City, and the best thing about this second Sistine Chapel is that you won’t have to fight through the crowds.