A new tour of the Vatican Gardens at the pope’s summer palace in Castel Gandolfo is opening in the spring for jubilee pilgrims who wish to escape the crowds in Rome for a day and immerse themselves in ...

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has opened its doors, temporarily, to 50 inmates from Rome's Rebibbia prison. The inmates got a private tour Sunday of the lush Vatican gardens and listened to Pope Francis' ...

On the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, a German bishop led a Eucharistic procession through the Vatican Gardens. Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is a ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV blessed the more than 150 cyclists competing in the Giro d’Italia on Sunday as the three-week race’s final stage began with an unprecedented ride through the Vatican ...

The Vatican Gardens welcomed a new Marian mosaic and a statue of St. Rose of Lima, both created by young artists from Peru -- in a ceremony that clearly delighted Pope Leo XIV -- an American-born pope ...

Pope Francis, center, Armenian Catholicos Karekin II, left, and Aram I Kechichian, head of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, right, attend a ceremony for the inauguration of the statue ...

ROME (AP) — It could very well be the biggest sporting event ever held inside the walls of the Vatican. The Giro d’Italia will pay homage to the late Pope Francis by passing through the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV blessed the 159 cyclists competing in the Giro d'Italia on Sunday as the three-week race's final stage began with an unprecedented ride through the Vatican gardens ...