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A view of the St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, taken on June 8, 2019. Venice authorities have rolled out a pilot program to charge day-trippers 5 euros ($5.45) apiece to enter the fragile lagoon city on peak weekends next year. The aim is to reduce crowds, encourage longer visits and improve the quality of life for residents. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

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Venice rolls out day-tripper fee to try to regulate mass crowds on peak weekends
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Thu,11/23/23-7:22AM , 106 Reads
ROME (AP) — Venice authorities on Thursday unveiled a pilot program to charge day-trippers 5 euros ($5.45) apiece to enter the fragile lagoon city on peak weekends next year in an effort to reduce crowds, encourage longer visits and improve the quality of life for residents.
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Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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Pope meets relatives of Israeli hostages and Palestinians in Gaza and sets off firestorm over words
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Wed,11/22/23-3:54AM , 120 Reads
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis met separately Wednesday with relatives of Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinians living through the war and set off a firestorm by using words that Vatican diplomats usually avoid: “terrorism” and, according to the Palestinians, “genocide.”
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The Rev. Joseph Strickland, left, bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, goes to one knee Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, to greet children on the first day of school at St. Gregory Cathedral School in Tyler, Texas. Pope Francis on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023, forcibly removed Strickland, a firebrand conservative prelate active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within the U.S. Catholic hierarchy. (Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph via AP)

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Pope Francis removes a leading US conservative critic as bishop of Tyler, Texas
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Sat,11/11/23-5:36AM , 116 Reads
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday ordered the removal of the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a conservative prelate active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within
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Pope Francis speaks during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, on Oct. 18, 2023. A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia. The Jesuits said Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 they had provided the diocese of Koper, Slovenia an “extensive letter” outlining the allegations against the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik and notice that he had been convicted and excommunicated for committing one of the most serious crimes in the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

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Pope orders Vatican to reopen case of priest accused of adult abuse but allowed to keep ministering
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Fri,10/27/23-6:27AM , 180 Reads
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to reopen the case of a well-known priest-artist accused of sexually, psychologically and spiritually abusing adult women, and r
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