In Rome, all roads seem to lead to the Trevi fountain. On my last visit, every other time I asked Google Maps to figure out a route to sites in the historic centre of the city, the app coursed me ...

First, he reassures the pilgrims who are crossing the Holy Door in the patriarchal basilicas in 'this great heat.' Then he ...

Review’s Sunday magazine noted a new trend in child birth: husbands helping in the delivery room, thanks to Lamaze classes.

Pope Leo XIV will take a summer break outside Rome, in Castel Gandolfo where locals and faithful anxiously await his arrival.

What a pope wears carries incredible meaning as we witnessed last month when Pope Leo XIV greeted the faithful from the loggia on May 8, 2025. Donned in a red mozzetta and a stole over a white ...

About an hour and a half north of Budapest by car, there’s a little yellow church — the Basilica of Our Lady of the ...

As mass tourism returns with a vengeance, cities like Rome struggle with overcrowding, unruly visitors, and mounting local resentment. The crisis, though modern in scale, has deep historical roots.

Today in History for June 30: In 1859, French acrobat Blondin crossed the Niagara gorge on a tightrope. Before reaching the Canadian side, he stopped to drink champagne and perform other feats. A ...

Pope Leo XIV has written a warm and detailed letter to Cardinal Raymond Burke, thanking the American cardinal for 50 years of ...

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

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first American pope, wore a White Sox baseball cap during a public appearance at the Vatican, setting the tone for his papal style.

Object Details artist Unknown Subject Clement, VIII Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 76 [Exhibited under heading: "The Jarves Collection."] Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Yale School ...