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The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls with questions like that as the pope ...

The Italian postal service has seen a huge increase in mail addressed to Pope Francis since his Feb. 14 hospitalization. Some ...

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Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...