As the first American pope takes the helm, we revisit an open letter published in 1978 by peace activist Blase A. Bonpane to ...

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

Over the last few weeks, Pope Leo XIV resumed the tradition of popes spending some part of the summer at the papal residence ...

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

The Jesuits run Hekima University College in Nairobi. Pope Francis was a Jesuit from Argentina in South America, where ‘liberation theology’ had flourished in the 1970s and 1980s.

Almost 13 years have passed since a pope spent part of his summer at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo, a hilltop town overlooking Lake Albano, just outside Rome. So, when Pope Leo XIV arrived at ...

Pope Francis will be the fourth pontiff visit the United States. — -- Pope Francis arrives in America today, making him only the fourth pontiff to visit the United States. Pope Paul VI was ...

Since 1978, when John Paul II became the first non-Italian pope in some 450 years, every pontiff has had an ambivalent, often-difficult relationship with his native country.

Pope Leo XIV greets religious sisters during a meeting with officials and employees of the Roman Curia, Vatican City State and the Diocese of Rome in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican May ...