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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matthew Festing – aka His Most Eminent Highness The Prince and Grand Master of the Knights of Malta – bounds into the sitting room of his magnificent Renaissance palazzo sweaty and somewhat disheveled ...