After a two-day conclave, the cardinal electors chose Robert Francis Prevost to lead the church on May 8, when he took on the name Pope Leo XIV and became the first American to be named pope. Leo has ...

From spotting the signs of an inauthentic Italian restaurant to enjoying Rome’s ancient sites in a heatwave, our weekly newsletter La Bella Vita offers you an essential starting point for eating, ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Holy Mass on Sunday, August 17, with the poor assisted by the Diocese in Albano, a small town in ...

The Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, signed an agreement on Thursday with the Italian ...

The concept stems from the ambition to enhance a site of strong symbolic value: the former power station of the Castelli ...

Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) plot of land north of Rome into a vast solar farm that ...

Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a plot of land north of Rome into a solar farm that will generate enough ...

Before a packed St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV gave his first general audience after his summer vacation in ...

The return of Pope Leo XIV to Castel Gandolfo was widely welcomed, even if only for a few weeks. The previous custom was that ...

By the thirties, however, light pollution had made the center of Rome inhospitable to the observatory, and the Pope—now Pius XI—offered the use of Castel Gandolfo as a future base of operations.

Whatever the reason, Pope Leo, who was born and raised in Chicago, has been very reluctant during these early months of his ...

Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 ...