Starting in 2023, a restoration team worked to reconstruct the traces of what the site might have looked like in the past.

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 ...

Can Pope Leo XIV solve the Vatican funding crisis? Here’s how the Holy See manages money - The Vatican doesn’t tax its ...

The world's smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily ...

From 1975: An unwelcome visitor paid a visit to the St. George’s School’s 20th anniversary celebration. A rattlesnake approached the outdoor audience area, causing some consternation. An audience ...

Vatican City, the smallest country in the world, has made history by switching to solar energy for all its electricity needs.

Vatican City — Pope Leo XIV made plenty of enemies helping dismantle a powerful Catholic movement whose leaders physically, sexually, spiritually and psychologically abused members. As Leo's ...

Chicago Tribune photographer Brian Cassella captures the scene as Pope Leo XIV is installed in Vatican City. Global dignitaries and faith leaders from around the world gathered in Vatican City on ...

VATICAN CITY — Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio held their first formal meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Monday as the Trump administration seeks to reset relations with ...

On May 18, Pope Leo XIV — born Robert Prevost of Chicago — marked the official start of his papacy with an inauguration Mass at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, drawing royalty from ...

The Vatican listed Vance's delegation as the first ... who spent the bulk of his ministry in Chiclayo, a commercial city of around 800,000 on Peru's northern Pacific coast. In the days since ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, were also at the private meeting, according to Vatican News. After the private audience with the first American pope on Monday ...