In case it’s confusing, the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and Vatican Gardens are all within the same complex ... There’s something undeniably enchanting about the Trevi Fountain, even when you’re ...

ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the ...

It may take more than American ingenuity to accomplish that. Located in Rome, the Vatican encompasses 110 acres with a population of under 1,000 souls. However, despite its size, the Vatican has had ...

Via del Tritone, the main road near the fountain, is lined with shops, including the upscale department store Rinascente. – Written by Laura Itzkowitz Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St Peter ...

In Chicago, whether it’s architecture or Catholicism, we do ordinary very well. It’s one reason we now call Pope Leo XIV our ...

Last Saturday was a bit of a milestone for me. It might easily have come and gone without me realizing it, but thanks to my obsessive record keeping, I happened to see a notation in the pages of my ...

In 2014, Israeli and Palestinian presidents Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas planted an olive tree in the Vatican gardens alongside Pope Francis, who in 2019 also hosted the feuding leaders of South ...

The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas — also known as the Angelicum — is not only the alma mater of Pope St. John Paul II, but now also of Pope Leo XIV. The latter’s studies there could tell ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first pope to come from the Order of St. Augustine, made a visit very early in his pontificate to the ...