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VATICAN CITY – Members of the ancient Knights of Malta religious order are voting for a new leader after the old one was effectively ousted by Pope Francis. Setting the stage for drama, the ...
It finally made its home in Rome after Napoleon expelled the order from Malta in 1798. The order is sovereign. It prints its own stamps, coins, license plates and passports, but it has no territory.
ROME – The head of the Knights of Malta resigned after entering into a public spat with Pope Francis over the ouster of a top official involved in a condom scandal, a spokeswoman for the ancient ...
Bertie, who was the 78th grand master of the 900-year-old charitable order, died Feb. 7 in a Rome clinic, ... The Knights of Malta has 12,500 members and operates in 120 countries, ...
ROME (AP) — A top leader of the Knights of Malta, an ancient aristocratic Catholic order that provides humanitarian aid around the world, warned the group’s members on Wednesday that the Holy ...
Rome — The Vatican said Wednesday it was taking over the embattled Knights of Malta lay Catholic order in an extraordinary display of papal power after the Knights’ grand master publicly ...
ROME (AP) — A Canadian lawyer who found his vocation caring for AIDS patients in Harlem was elected the grand master of the Knights of Malta on Wednesday, the first non-European and first non ...
Conservative criticism of Pope Francis intensified Saturday after his intervention in the Knights of Malta order, with posters appearing around Rome citing his actions against conservative Catholic… ...
Albrecht von Boeselager, second from right, walks in procession along with other Knights of Malta before the election of the new Grand Master, at the order's Villa Magistrale on Rome's Aventine ...