Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of ...

More than half a million young Catholics are expected to attend the Youth Jubilee, which kicked off on Tuesday evening with a ...

Pope Leo XIV has extended his vacation at Castel Gandolfo by two days. How does he relax? And what have other popes done with ...

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Pope Francis endorsed gay civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for a feature-length documentary that made its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday.

Victoria Pruden (center), President of the Métis National Council, was part of a delegation of Indigenous leaders that visited Rome in 2022 to discuss residential schools with Pope Francis.

Francis landed in Rome after a packed day in the City of Brotherly Love. — -- Pope Francis left Philadelphia Sunday and arrived in Rome, bringing his historic trip to the U.S. to a close. The ...

Pope Francis attends a inter-religious ceremony for peace in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, in Rome Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) By: The Associated Press Posted ...

Pope Leo XIV visits Vatican's hilltop summer residence that Francis turned into museum A view of the Papal Palace in Castel Gandolfo, some 30 kilometers southeast of Rome, Saturday, May 29, 2021.

Today, almost three months since the election of Pope Leo XIV, the media reality defies those expectations. Apart from ...