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Pope Francis toured St Peter's Square in an open-top car at the start of his inauguration as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. |
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VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis swept into St Peter's Square on Tuesday to greet throngs of pilgrims before a sumptuous ceremony in which Latin America's first pontiff will receive the formal symbols of papal power. |
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05:03 Pope Francis celebrates inaugural mass in Vatican. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill St. Peter's Square and surrounding streets for the Mass on Tuesday formally to install Francis as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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In a fast-paced, globalised world in which billions send emails, share photos on smartphones and get their instant news online,... |
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The Vatican says over 200 religious and political delegations confirmed their attendance, the largest of which hail from the Pope's native Argentina, as well as Italy, for the Inauguration Mass on Tuesday for Pope Francis. An historic first will grace the mass, March 19, that will inaugurate the pontificate of Pope Francis . |
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- State radio in Zimbabwe says President Robert Mugabe has arrived in Rome for the inaugural mass of newly-elected Pope Francis. Mugabe is the subject of a travel ban by European nations to protest his human rights record in a decade of political and economic turmoil in his.... |
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AAA Michigan says gasoline prices have risen about 7 cents during the past week to a statewide average of about $3.77 per gallon.The auto club says Monday the average is about 20 cents per gallon less ... |
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African cardinal on Monday apologized for offending victims of child abuse when he described pedophilia as an illness and not a crime in a media interview. Victims' rights groups and others said the comments by Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the Catholic Archbishop of.... |
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(By Denis Greenan). Buenos Aires, March 18 - Argentine Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti said Monday that Pope Francis "is absolutely innocent" and was not suspected of being complicit in human rights violations committed during the 1976-83 military dictatorship there. Since t... |
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(By Denis Greenan). (ANSA) - Buenos Aires, March 18 - Argentine Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti said Monday that Pope Francis "is absolutely innocent" and was not suspected of being complicit in human rights violations committed during the 1976-83 military dictatorship there. |