VATICAN CITY — As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square as he is being ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is being laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony reflecting his priorities as pope and wishes as ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for the "most peripheral of the peripheries" and reflected his wishes as ...

The temple serves as the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania — there are about 70,000 Masons statewide — ...

In 2016, with Europe facing a historic wave of undocumented immigrant arrivals, Pope Francis flew to the Greek front-line island ... “sede vacante,” when the throne of St. Peter is empty.

Over the figures in the picture are some Greek letters which form the abbreviated ... immediately over his chair of state in the throne room. Here it could be seen by all just over his head ...

Sculptures are first-century Roman copies of Greek originals ... and royal children were frequently murdered by rivals to the throne. Macedonia was a violent, unstable, hypermasculine society ...

Recognized as the oldest synagogue of the Jewish Diaspora, it was a two-room structure intended for religious use. Among the ruins, a finely sculpted marble armchair known as the Throne of Moses was ...

Cleopatra was a daughter of Egypt – part of the Macedonian-Greek-Ptolemaic Dynasty that had ruled since ... Fearing the loss of the throne and an end to his dynasty, Ptolemy took a huge risk: he ...