The Vatican bank and the city state's governorate, which controls the museums, also make annual contributions to the pope. As recently ... more important is leaving behind the “mendicant ...

That leaves Pope Leo XIV facing challenges to drum up the funds needed to pull his city-state out of the red. Anyone can donate money to the Vatican ... is leaving behind the “mendicant ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Pope Leo XIV leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Wednesday. Gregorio Borgia/AP Share VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV ...

World-class cyclists will greet Pope Leo XIV and circle Vatican City on Sunday before embarking on the final lap of the Giro d’Italia, a multistage bicycle race that concludes in Rome.

The center is located in the gardens of the Vatican’s Castel Gandolfo property on Lake Alban in the hills south of Rome. Pope Urban VIII built the palace on the northern end of town in 1624 ...

Four students from Los Angeles-area Catholic high schools will visit the Vatican to participate in a memorial service for Pope Francis while hoping to meet the new head of the Catholic Church ...

Rome — Pope Leo XIV and Vice President JD Vance met at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts aimed at making progress on a ceasefire in Russia's war in Ukraine.

Pope Leo XIV met with US Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha Vance in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican May 19, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – After attending Pope Leo ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also joined the meeting at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, which lasted 45 minutes. Both men are Roman Catholic and led the U.S. delegation to Pope Leo's ...

Vice President Vance and second lady Usha Vance met Pope Leo XIV while in Vatican City for the pontiff’s inauguration mass on Sunday. Before exiting St. Peter’s Square, the vice president and ...

That homily was delivered during the American pope's inaugural mass, called the Holy Mass for the Beginning of the Pontificate, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. An open-topped popemobile ...

new video loaded: Pope Leo XIV Holds Inaugural Mass at the Vatican Pope Leo XIV used his homily to plead for peace in warring regions and to call for a more united Roman Catholic Church.