Pope Leo XIV has extended his vacation at Castel Gandolfo by two days. How does he relax? And what have other popes done with ...

Pope Leo XIV has marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical ...

Pope Leo XIV is on vacation at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, a 135-acre estate featuring multiple ...

Pope Leo XIV left the group with a prayer and a blessing and a message of unity. And in that papal gallery within the Apostolic Palace that early June morning, SMU was humbly represented by its own ...

Discover the pope's summer getaway, an Italian hillside town called a 'Mediterranean Paradise' with beautiful gardens and a ...

Pope Nicholas V was the first pope to live in the Apostolic Palace. However, in 1903, Pope Pius X became the first pope to live in the modern Apostolic apartments, overlooking St. Peter’s Square.

An image of Pope Gregory X who was elected after the longest conclave in the Catholic Church's history, is exhibited in the Palace of the Popes in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025.

The remains of what appears to be a medieval palace where popes lived before they made the Vatican their home have been excavated in Rome prior to renovations for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, or ...

The cardinals were first locked in Viterbo’s papal palace with a key, giving birth to the term conclave, which comes from the Latin words “cum” (with) and “clavem” (key).

The Apostolic Palace is not a single building, but a complex consisting of about 1,000 rooms, including: • The Papal Apartments, now partly uninhabited (Pope Francis chose to live in the more ...

Visitors walk by a papal faldstool bearing the coat of arms of Pope Pius IX, 1846-1878, in the Papal Palace in Castel Gandolfo, some 30 kilometers southeast of Rome, Saturday, May 29, 2021.

Does This 4th-Century Roman Papal Palace Predate the Vatican? The Pope hasn’t always lived in the Vatican, and may have resided here for centuries. Courtesy Italian Ministry of Culture.