The beloved religious institution is now the Basilica of St. Edward, just as church officials begin to plan a centenary celebration.

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death ...

ROME -- Pope Francis marked the one-week point Friday in his hospital stay, getting up to eat breakfast as the 88-year-old ...

where he met and befriended St. Gregory of Nazianzus (one of the four great Greek Doctors of the Church). He became the secretary of Pope Damasus, who commissioned the Vulgate from him ...