Renaissance painter’s fresco cycle depicting the life of the saint in Assisi, Italy, took an innovative, vibrant approach to ...

From Polish pilgrimage trails to French vineyards, the places popes come from often gain new meaning. With the announcement ...

But St Francis Xavier Chapel, which has a strong claim to be the oldest surviving Catholic church in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

Lesser-known New Rome also provides respite from crowds, as the city centre battles with over tourism. When the Trevi fountain reopened after restoration works in December 2024, it did so with a new ...

Leo said the world was living through "the dramatic scenario of a Third World War being fought piecemeal," repeating a phrase ...

Pope Leo XIV has appealed to world leaders to pursue peace, not war, in his first Sunday address to crowds in St Peter’s ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first ...

Leo, the first American pope, told the cardinals who elected him that he was fully committed to the reforms of the Second ...