The Vatican has owned a papal palace in the town, including vast Renaissance-style gardens, since 1596, but Francis, who shunned much of the pomp and privilege of the papacy, chose not to take ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

Trip also reinforced Vatican’s solidarity with Japan’s quest for peace, created fresh avenues for cultural dialogue ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...

“I’m ticked,” says John Prevost, the retired Midwestern high school principal who is now, abruptly and without warning, globally famous and in demand. “I didn’t want to be, but I’m so angry.” He’s ...

Pope LEO XIV has joined with the State Department to condemn the killing of yet more Christians by Islamist militants in ...

Warns that rising violence against children in war, attacks on schools and hospitals show a grave global failure ...

In a way, we have rewritten the history of art,” explained Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican Museums, during a ...

Pope Leo XIV received members of a delegation from the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in a June 28 audience.

"The history of Peter and Paul shows us that the communion to which the Lord calls us is a unison of voices and personalities ...

The Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful with an American-style publicity pitch, an effort ...

Leo celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, marking the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, during which he gave the pallium woolen stole to 54 new archbishops.