Cesar Galan belonged to a violent Los Angeles street gang. Then a shooting changed the way he saw the world and led him to ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Robert Prevost, embraced his role as the bishop of Rome, formally taking possession of St. John ...

Pope Leo XIV declared himself a Roman on Sunday as he completed the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop ...

The bishop of Rome is one of many titles held by the pope. Duties related to the title are usually delegated to an auxiliary ...

Pope Leo XIV declared himself a Roman, the last step in the process of establishing himself as the supreme pontiff of the ...

Although it is the official residence, Pope Francis does not reside in the Apostolic Palace and chooses the papal apartment instead ...

Pope Leo isn't just the leader of the Catholic Church. He's also the head of the Holy See, the central governing body of ...

The painting captures the rigid firmness of his faith ... Detail of mosaic Triclinium Leoninum, Triclinium of St. Leo III in the Lateran Basilica, Rome, Italy. Restoration: Ferdinando Fuga (1743).

This painting depicts the posthumous trial of Pope Formosus, in Italy during the year 897. The trial was held by Pope Stephen VI in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, condemning him for ...

We associate popes with St. Peter's Basilica ... Sister Benedetta has been describing the art and architectural and religious wonders of St. John Lateran in English and Spanish and Italian ...

Peter’s Basilica Diplomacy ... Despite the loss of the Papal States in 1870, the Lateran Treaty of 1929 restored the Holy See’s sovereignty through the creation of Vatican City, allowing ...

The last pontiff to be buried outside the Vatican’s walls was Leo XIII, who died in 1903 after he had requested to be buried in Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran ... to pray before the ...