Up to a million young Catholic believers are expected Saturday for a night-time vigil led by Pope Leo XIV, the culmination of ...

Tens of thousands of young Catholics from all over the world gathered on Tuesday in Rome for a week of pilgrimage during the ...

Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) plot of land north of Rome into a vast solar farm that ...

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Half a million young people are expected to pour into Rome next week for the biggest event of the 2025 Holy Year.

Some 21 young people aged 15 to 27 from Hong Kong’s St Patrick's Catholic Church are in Italy for the youth jubilee with Leo XIV. They also stopped off in Assisi, Milan, Florence, and Naples ...

Returning to Rome on Tuesday night after a short stay in nearby town of Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV called for an end to ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two ...

Vice President JD Vance waves waves as he departs Charleston, S.C., Thursday, May 1, 2025, after touring Nucor Steel Berkeley in Huger, S.C. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP) ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two ...

There are some possible contenders who have emerged. One of them is Cardinal Pietri Parolin. The 70-year-old Italian is the Vatican secretary of state -- basically second in command to the pope.