Pope Leo XIV will head to the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo for his summer vacation. After 12 years of papal absence, ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A local Italian group launched an online petition urging Pope Francis, the Vatican and others to stop the “fir tree-icide” of cutting down a 200-year-old red pine to ...

Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu and San Marino make up the world's smallest countries. ... Nauru lies in the Pacific Ocean, and has a land area of just around 8.1 square miles.

The Vatican’s Christmas tree was also lit at the Dec. 9 ceremony. The tree, an 80-foot-tall fir, had been donated by the Italian community of Macra, located in the northwest of Italy.