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Pope set to make first trip since pandemic to saint's town

by Associated Press
| September 5, 2020 5:03 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is next month set to make what would be his first visit outside Rome since Italy was put under lockdown in early March when it became the first country in Europe to feel the full brunt of the coronavirus pandemic.

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