Pope Leo XIV is on vacation at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, a 135-acre estate featuring multiple ...

The arrival of Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo on July 6, 2025, marked the return of a papal summer retreat after more than a ...

I have walked the rooms and gone up and down the staircases many times, gasping at their beauty, always experiencing the Stendhal syndrome. But nothing prepared me for what I felt during the ...

The 135-acre estate owned by the Holy See features multiple properties and gardens. Leo XIV is staying in Villa Barberini, a 17th-century palace with expansive gardens.

For Robert Prevost, summer has turned out very differently than he imagined. Robert Prevost never imagined that the conclave ...

A large and diverse crowd welcomed Pope Leo XIV for Mass at the parish of St. Thomas of Villanova, his first public event in ...

The pope will stay at the papal retreat from July 6 to 20, and he will return for the weekend of the Feast of the Assumption from August 15 to 17. On July 13, he will celebrate Mass at the Church of ...

Eventually the Apostolic Camera seized the property from the Savelli family due to financial issues, and in 1604 Castel Gandolfo was incorporated into the Holy See’s assets. The history of the papal ...

After the whirlwind of his election, Pope Leo XIV has decamped to Castel Gandolfo to escape the heat of Rome and enjoy a summer vacation, like many popes before him.

Pope Francis established a strong reputation as a workaholic, a tendency that he followed to the point of working from his hospital room earlier this year while deathly ill. But this July, Pope Leo ...

Leo XIV has brought back the papal tradition of vacationing at Castel Gandolfo. So how did a family castle become part of the ...

Pope Leo XIV hopes that “everyone will be able to enjoy some vacation time in order to restore both body and spirit.” ...