In a surprising move, Pope Francis’ special delegate to the Order of Malta has instructed Fra’ Matthew Festing, the Order’s former Grand Master, not to travel to Rome for the election of his successor ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The private residence of the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta is perched high above the Ligurian Sea on a rocky ...

The Vatican has reconsidered an earlier instruction forbidding the Order of Malta’s former Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing from attending the election of his successor this week. According to ...

Matthew Festing, who resigned in January, could reignite conflict with Vatican by disobeying direct order from Pope Francis to stay away from meeting The ousted grand master of the Catholic charity ...

Fra’ Matthew Festing, Grand Master of the Order of Malta who was toppled in a dispute over the place in the modern world of the ancient charitable order – obituary Festing, a good cook with a gift for ...