The 69-year-old Chicago native is resuming the papal tradition of leaving the Vatican for the hot summer months in favor of ...

The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of ...

A Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appear to cast doubt on Pope ...

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

Pope Leo will revive a centuries-old tradition on Sunday by taking a holiday at Castel Gandolfo, where residents of the lakeside town hope for a tourism boost after the late Pope Francis shunned ...

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

The two young men from northern Italy will be canonized together this fall by Pope Leo XIV as the first saints of the new ...

Father Francesco Ielpo, a member of the Order of Friars Minor, has been named the new custos of the Holy Land and guardian of ...

Pope Leo warned politicians on Saturday of the challenges posed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), addressing its potential impact on younger people as a prime concern.

Given this situation, on Feb. 26 Pope Francis created the “Commissio de donationibus pro Sancta Sede” (Commission for Donations to the Holy See), a new body to raise funds “for the mission ...

First millennial saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7, the pope says The body of Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, lies in his tomb in Assisi, Italy, on March 1, 2025.

Just over a month since Leo’s election, priests of the diocese told CNA there is a lot of excitement for the new pope and interest in how he will lead the Church in Rome as it confronts shifts ...