#franciss

News The Leica M-A owned by the late pontiff is one of the most valuable models ever sold at auction. Pope Francis’s Leica M-A film camera sold for more than $7M. (photo by Christoph Welkovits, all courtesy Leitz Photographica Auction) Say formaggio! A blindingly white-and-silver Leica camera owned by the late Pope Francis sold at a European auction this weekend for about $7.5 million, nearly 100…

Pope health latest: Vatican explains Pope Francis’s serious state with new update

The pontiff is recovering from intestinal surgery, gradually resuming work, walking and eating with aides, the Vatican confirmed earlier today. It confirmed that his blood tests were satisfactory. The 84-year-old pope is in hospital after undergoing a three-hour operation last Sunday to remove part of his colon, which the Vatican said had narrowed severely. Spokesman Matteo Bruni said the pope…

Enter The Dreamy World Of Taj Francis’s Stylish Illustrations

The Caribbean heat seems to have melted the skin of every object. Jamaican illustrator Taj Frances draws. Edna Manley's graduate college of visual and performing arts portrays models and musicians with marble paint and all the tropical dance colors of the dance floor party. Palm leaves, flowers, microphones and other icons pour out through the liquid veneer to offer more information about the…

Enter The Dreamy World Of Taj Francis’s Stylish Illustrations

The Caribbean heat seems to have melted the skin of every object. Jamaican illustrator Taj Frances draws. Edna Manley's graduate college of visual and performing arts portrays models and musicians with marble paint and all the tropical dance colors of the dance floor party.

Palm leaves, flowers, microphones and other icons pour out through the liquid veneer to offer more information about…

Francis’s Climate Warmup Act

VATICAN CITY — There are few people you’re less likely to see at the head table of a Vatican conference than a secular feminist Jew.

But Naomi Klein, Canadian author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, didn’t feel out of place at all. She was in Rome to headline a conference called People and Planet First: The Imperative to Change Course.

In working with Klein, the Vatican…