Unpicking the crucifixion as a parable of unselfing, radical empathy, sacrifice and rebirth, they ignore the cross itself, apparently seeing it as a mere enabler, a favourite Roman killing instrument ...

In his short reign he commissioned a lantern for St Peter ... for the valid election of a Roman Pontiff”. It was also ordered that “no one approaches the Cardinal electors while they make ...

The real-life dean is not a middle-aged man with sad eyes and a British accent, but a 91-year-old Italian who has spent most of his career serving in the Roman curia. The dean, Cardinal Giovanni ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

In Conclave, he plays the Canadian cardinal Tremblay ... My wife was there with me, so we had a wonderful Roman holiday whenever I didn't work. We had kids and friends visiting us.

The church of Sant'Agnese in Agone is one of the most sumptuous temples of the Roman Baroque. Built from 1651 on the site ... culminates gloriously in the verticalism of the lantern. The very elegant ...

Authorities have found alive a Roman Catholic cardinal who disappeared this week in western Panama near the border with Costa Rica, church officials said Thursday, hours after confirming the ...