Pope Leo XIV is still keeping his cards close to his cassock, but people who have observed him over the years are helping ...

Perez, a Vineland, New Jersey, artist, was commissioned last December to paint a portrait of Pope Francis by the Global Solidarity Fund, a nonprofit anti-poverty group.

This portrait, an official memento of the pope’s quietly emotional tour of the United States in 2015, will also join the long rows of portraits in the Vatican collection of popes down the centuries.

In 2013, Time Magazine asked the Wheaton-based artist to paint Pope Francis. The portrait would grace the cover of “The Person of the Year’ issue. “In a weird way, when I saw that he passed ...

After more than a decade without its most famous vacationer, the quiet town of Castel Gandolfo once again counts the pope ...

A portrait of Pope Francis is projected onto a water fountain in Lima, Peru, on April 21, 2025. AP Photo/Martin Mejia Where do you see the influence of Pope Francis’ Latin American background? In ...