Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them seriously enables their success.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis chose his place of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna that he revered, ...

Francesco leaves the chronicles forever to enter History. Also in that of the city of Rome, where he has been a father, ...

The Vatican is grieving the first head of the Catholic Church from the Americas and Saturday marks the beginning of the ...

Three days of public viewing of Pope Francis’ body by ordinary mourners and statesmen alike have ended. VATICAN CITY (AP) — ...