Italy's top cultural sites drew more than 60 million paying visitors in 2024, surpassing the country's population for the first time.The ancient Colosseum in Rome was the most visited attraction, with ...

The U.S.-born pope spent about a dozen years as a missionary in Peru and returned there later to serve as a bishop.

Almost a week after Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the new Pope Leo XIV, people are still talking about the first pope to come from the United States. The Most Rev. Dennis Walsh, bishop ...

The peoples of our world desire peace,” Pope Leo XIV said, “and to their leaders I appeal with all my heart: Let us meet, let ...

Father Robert "Bob" Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, presided over the baptism of his three sons in 2014 in a small town in ...

Archbishop Nelson Pérez, along with educators and pastors in the region, share their impressions and memories of the first American elected pope.

"He knows everyone, and we all know him — that made it especially meaningful."The Shrine at Saint AugustineThe shrine, run by ...

The world No1, who is into the quarter-finals of his first event since his three-month anti-doping ban expired, made the ...

The newly elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, is from Chicago -- and one Windy City-based restaurant chain is ...

Michael J. O’Loughlin is executive director of Outreach, an LGBTQ Catholic publication, and author of “Hidden Mercy: AIDS, ...

Eastern and Latin alike — who, above all in the Middle East, persevere and remain in their homelands,” Leo said May 14.

World No. 1 tennis player Jannik Sinner met Pope Leo XIV, the newly elected pontiff, during a private audience at the Vatican ...