ROME – Police were investigating Monday the case of an American citizen, 47, who accidentally impaled himself on one of the Colosseum fences, while attempting to climb over it.
John Phillips
VATICAN CITY – Leading Papabili Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle lost some ground in the race for St Peter’s throne Monday while Italian Latin patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Hungarian conservative Peter Erdo gained momentum, according to Vatican sources quoted by Il Messaggero’s respected Vatican reporter.
5 May 2025
Ophelia Gregory
VATICAN CITY – Shortly before dying Pope Francis requested that the Popemobile, which is the one he used during his 2014 visit to Jerusalem, would be taken to Gaza to serve as a small emergency medical unit for children, it has been announced by the Vatican.
5 May 2025
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VATICAN CITY – The Philippine church has issued a response to accusations made on Friday in a news conference in Rome, in which two leaders of a prominent global watchdog group on the Catholic abuse crisis were critiquing the handling of child sex crimes in the Church by the two top papal contenders, Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle.
5 May 2025
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME -- A planned all employee virtual meeting of Word Food Programme staff and consultants to hear how up to 6,000 'roles' will be slashed at the UN agency due to U.S. funding cuts has been postponed by eight days due to a 'cock-up' by WFP President Cindy McCain's top management team, WFP sources say.
3 May 2025
Ophelia Gregory
5 May 2025
Ophelia Gregory
3 May 2025
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1 May 2025
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