A view of the Papal or Apostolic Palace, a historic summer retreat for popes in the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo, about ...

Pope Leo XIV will head to the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo for his summer vacation. After 12 years of papal absence, ...

Pope Leo XIV heads off on holiday on Sunday, having spent his first two months as Catholic leader rebuilding unity and ...

On Monday, the Synod of Bishops will publish the final synodal document on how local churches can implement the Synod's ...

Overlooking Lake Albano on a hill south of Rome, Castel Gandolfo was for centuries a much-loved papal summer retreat — until Pope Francis renounced both the estate and summer holidays.

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

Leaked documents seemingly undermining Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass provided an incomplete ...

Pope Leo XIV on July 3 appointed two prominent cardinals, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and ...

Castel Gandolfo prepares to welcome Pope Leo XIV July 6. The imposing papal villa in this town on the shores of Lake Albano, ...

ALBERTO DE ANGELIS, the mayor of Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Pope Leo returning to the hilltop town for the summer, a tradition Francis had abandoned.