Starting in 2023, a restoration team worked to reconstruct the traces of what the site might have looked like in the past.

A new photo of Leo XIV stands by frescoes representing past papal visits to a Virgin Mary icon in the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel, commemorating where he prayed two days ...

On the evening of May 8th white smoke poured forth from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling the election of a new pope. Then came the ringing cry – “Habemus Papam” (“We have a Pope”). Then ...

Many sacred beliefs of our Catholic faith can be traced to the 21 ecumenical councils held since the fourth century.

When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

“With Father Robert, then Very Rev. Prior ... that was crucial to St. Augustine, who inspired the order that’s found itself in an unusual spotlight ever since Leo’s first public blessing from St.

When Robert Francis Prevost appeared on the loggia of St Peter’s Basilica ... on the fourth ballot. An hour later he greeted the city and the world as Pope Leo XIV, first in Italian then in ...

In the span of his infant papacy, Robert Prevost hasn’t had time to make many decisions besides what to say from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica ... forth by the fourth-century theologian ...

The 69-year-old’s chosen name was unveiled just moments before the new pontiff appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to ... The name Leo is now the fourth most used by popes, behind ...

Prevost, a longtime missionary and member of the Augustinian religious order, made his first appearance on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ... Then he briefly lived at the now-shuttered ...

Prevost, a Chicago native, is also a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop ... as Jesus. St. Peter’s Basilica now stands over what ...