Beneath the hot May sunshine, lemon groves, their winter hail-protection netting just removed, perfume the air with their ...

If the vote doesn't yield the two-third majority needed to elect the new pope, the cardinals go back to guesthouse Casa Santa Marta for dinner. It is then, on the sidelines of the voting process, that ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass this morning following his election, calling on the Church to focus on areas where ...

By now you’ve probably heard about Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff and the 267th head of the Roman Catholic Church. A dual-national, he’s also the first Peruvian citizen to serve as pope ...

Thousands of people have been gathering in St Peter’s Square to witness the time-honoured tradition which signified that no candidate had garnered the two-thirds majority needed to become the new pope ...

Pope Leo XIV met JD Vance, the US vice-president, after calling for peace in “martyred Ukraine”. On Sunday morning, Mr Vance ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, began his papacy with a richly-symbolic inaugural Mass, celebrated at the Vatican ...

This procession runs from the Colosseum, where everyone gathers, to Palatine Hill. Prayers are led at every Station of the Cross. Besides Easter Sunday’s Mass, this is considered one of the most ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, began his papacy with a richly-symbolic inaugural Mass, celebrated at the Vatican before a crowd of 150,00 people.

Every year on 1 May, San Domenico di Sora gets some spectacularly bizarre accessories. During a religious procession in the ...

The Saturday processions were held to mark the Jubilee of Confraternities. Two processions total marched through the Roman ...