Archbishop Samuel Aquila of the Archdiocese of Denver will submit his resignation as his birthday approaches in September.

According to the Vatican Press Office, the Pontiff named Bishop Alberto Uy as the new Archbishop of Cebu, the country’s ...

The pope is in for a holy holiday tradition. After a surprising rise to the top position, Pope Leo XIV will be taking a summer holiday. He recently announced plans to stay at the Castel Gandolfo — a ...

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.

Up in the hills above Lake Albano, a half-hour drive from Rome, is a small town known for impressive panoramas, a temperate climate and, above all, its world-famous visitor: the pope. Castel Gandolfo, ...

Pope Benedict XVI famously closed out his papacy in the estate on Feb. 28, 2013. But Francis, a homebody who never took a proper vacation during his 12-year pontificate, decided to remain in Rome ...

The head of the Italian Culture Ministry’s film department has resigned. The resignation followed revelations that an American film director accused in a double homicide had secured nearly $1 million ...

The conditions of that pre-written resignation are also unknown to the public. Benedict XVI, meanwhile, has already demonstrated the process by which a pope might step down and be replaced.

The last three popes — Benedict XVI, Francis, and Leo XIV — have on more than one occasion recommended reading “Lord of the World.” ...

At Pope Benedict XVI’s inaugural Mass on April 24, 2005, he explained the symbolism of the pallium and the lamb’s wool as “meant to represent the lost, the sick, or weak sheep which the ...

Many aspects of Pope Francis’ remarkable program of ecclesial renewal weare prefigured in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s vision for the church.