How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

If you don't visit on your own, you may pass by the steps on one of the best Rome tours. You'll find the Spanish Steps, as well as the Keats-Shelley House, some elaborate Roman homes and lots of ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

was deeply moved to find herself by chance in Rome as the conclave began. She decided Wednesday morning to skip the Spanish Steps and Trevi Fountain and pray instead in St. Peter’s Square.

Latin for “all out” — the great doors of the Sistine Chapel closed Wednesday and 133 cardinals began the secretive, centuries ...