For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

Inside Vatican City, the home of Pope Leo, lies a vast collection of Indigenous artifacts and cultural objects that some ...

Pope Leo XIV spent several hours May 29 visiting the Borgo Laudato Si’ ecology project set up at the papal villa and farm in ...

Pope Leo XIV is visiting the papal summer palace south of Rome. His visit is fueling speculation about whether he will use it ...

Even during the pontificate of St. John Paul II, and while maintaining the 1998 home page, Vatican.va introduced more color ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

But the new pope, in 2025, has done something more than mark an anniversary. By choosing the name “Leo” and explicitly ...

Renowned portrait artist Nelson Shanks ' son, Alexander, has laid bare his experience of gaining first-hand access inside the ...

White, the university’s first American rector, also pointed out that both Pope John Paul II and Pope Leo XIV ... was the traditional home of pontiffs for over a century. Pope Leo XIV on ...

Pope Leo XIV, who grew up in a humble 3-bedroom home in Illinois ... In 2004, a photographer captured an image of Pope John Paul II praying in this room for victims of the Madrid bombings.