Nicholas de Piro doesn’t look like a warrior monk. As the bespectacled grandfather padded around his 16th-century palazzo, pointing out curiosities — like a gilded sedan chair and silver medical tools ...

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ROME (AP) — A Canadian lawyer who found his vocation caring for AIDS patients in Harlem has been elected the grand master of the Knights of Malta, the first non-European and first nonaristocratic head ...

Members of the Knights of Malta arrive for a Mass before the start of voting for their new leader in Rome May 2. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME — Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre was elected the 80th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis (R) meets Robert Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta during a ...

Reporting from Vatican City — Pope Francis on Wednesday seized control of the Knights of Malta, an action that amounts to one sovereign country annexing another, if on a very small scale. Here’s what ...

Fra' Giacomo Dalla Torre was elected the 80th grand master of the Knights of Malta May 2 and promised to continue the reform of the order begun last year when he was elected its interim head. In a ...