CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy -- Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday to start a six-week ...

Leo XIV, a native of Chicago, can use his American upbringing to enhance significantly his papal ministry, but he must be ...

According to the master of liturgical ceremonies, Archbishop Diego Ravelli, Pope Leo will be both blessing and personally ...

See scenes from the June 22 blessing and dedication of the historic papal cross—first erected for Pope St. John Paul II’s ...

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The priests then gave the pope a blessing, he said. Pope Leo subsequently gave the three priests an "apostolic blessing with everyone else,” Urban told The Capital-Journal in a text message June 20.

Leo will stay at the papal retreat of Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, from 6-20 July for rest and again in August for the Assumption feast day. Pope Urban VIII built the palace in 1624 to provide ...