Pope Leo XIV on Sunday heads to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo back its most illustrious resident after Pope Francis stayed away during ...

Up in the hills above Lake Albano, a half-hour drive from Rome, is a small town known for impressive panoramas, a temperate climate and, above all, its world-famous visitor: the pope. Castel Gandolfo, ...

Pope Leo appoints French Archbishop Thibault Verny to lead the Vatican's Commission on Clergy Sexual Abuse, aiming to restore the Church's credibility amid ongoing scandals ...