The group of travelers with ties to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia attended the public viewing on Friday and were in Rome ...

The death of Pope Francis has impacted travel plans for many members of the religious community who were scheduled to visit ...

Cardinals will meet next month to pick Francis' successor, deciding if the new pope should continue with the late pontiff's ...

"Tens of thousands of people attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II, so we expect demand and thus prices for travel and hotels in Rome to rise as demand increases," Tim Hentschel, CEO and ...

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

A secretive military unit specialising in drone warfare will be deployed to monitor the sky over Rome and the Vatican during ...

However, he added that he believes the crowd numbers will be similar to those for Benedict’s funeral: “I don’t expect numbers even close to [the funeral of] Pope John Paul II.” Around four ...

VATICAN CITY -- Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: ...

“I wish my last earthly journey to end at this very ancient ... signed his will is the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul and a holiday in Rome. He says in the document that he had written it ...

Tourists who have booked to visit Rome in the coming ... death of Pope John Paul II - travellers witnessed a profound moment of history," James Ridgway, CEO of Christian travel specialist ETS ...

This year, Rome expects to welcome three times its normal number of visitors - between 30 and 32 million, compared to an average of 10 million - as Catholics travel ... and St Paul's Outside ...

Telegraph Travel destination expert Rebecca Winke, who has lived in Rome since 1993, reflects on the general feeling in Rome after the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005: “The area around ...