Almost 13 years have passed since a pope spent part of his summer at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo, a hilltop town ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II established full diplomatic ties.

Pope Leo XIV warned against the risk of “falling into a rut, a routine, a tendency to follow the same old pastoral plans ...

Pope Leo XIV has spoken publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff. Leo recalled Thursday that ...

Pope John Paul II during Mass at a farm in rural Iowa, on Oct. 4, 1979, during his first visit to the United States. (Wally McNamee/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) ...