Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

Pope Leo XIV arrives for an audience with thousands of journalists and media workers on May 12, 2025 at Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, Vatican. The audience with journalists has become a tradition ...

Each year, pilgrims travel from all over the world to celebrate the apparition of the Virgin Mary to three children in 1917.

People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption this week mused about what the future might hold for ...

An alcove that once held a statue is now empty and spray-painted with the words “Oh My God.” Nuzzo wondered if the religious ...

Many sites associated with past popes have become museums or holy destinations for the faithful. But Pope Leo XIV’s childhood ...

The ancient Roman burial ground had been untouched for some 1,600 years and lies at depths of as much as 35 feet beneath a network of underground passageways called the Vatican Grottoes.

While Medieval Conclaves could extend for months and even years, the rules were tweaked by Pope John Paul II and Pope ...

Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders gathered in ...

Francis is not the only pope to rest there. Seven others are buried on the grounds, most notably St. Pius V, who established ...