The U.S. embassy’s annual celebration, held June 30, commemorated the 41st anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between ...

Beneath a canopy of Roman pines, Americans in Rome celebrated the Fourth of July this year with something more than barbecue and fireworks: the historic election of the first pope born and raised in ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

Castel Gandolfo prepares to welcome Pope Leo XIV July 6. The imposing papal villa in this town on the shores of Lake Albano, ...

Welcomed by the Cardinal Archbishop, don Mimmo Battaglia, will be in Casoria next Saturday, July 5th, to commemorate, eighty ...

Pope Leo XIV, 69, is the person to whom lots of people look when they want to come in contact with God. John Prevost, 71, is ...

But Pope Pius XII was not completely silent either, especially in his Christmas messages. His 1941 and 1942 Christmas messages were both translated and published in The New York Times (Dec. 25 ...

This summer visitors to Siena Cathedral can witness a sight normally hidden from view: what Vasari called the “most beautiful ...

Pius IX (1846-1878) — REVOLUTIONARY ITALY . . . 131-231 Young Giovanni Mastai, 131; Social Work and Priesthood, 137; Missionary in South America, 140; Archbishop of Spoleto, 142; Archbishop of Imola, ...