Wide blue and gold-striped pants that can seem almost clown-like. The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

Swiss Guards stand in formation at St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Thursday, after the conclave elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the next pope. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images ...

On May 6, they were scheduled to swear in as new members of the Swiss Guard, the smallest army in the world, the same one that protects the Pope even with their lives if necessary. The ceremony ...

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In a tribute to Pope Francis and his message of hope for the Jubilee Year, elite cyclists rode through Vatican City and its ...

An hour later, the new pope, now the former Cardinal Prevost ... people gathered in the piazza below applauded and the Swiss Guards, along with the Italian armed forces, presented their respects.