The pontiff was accompanied by astronomers and students participating in the traditional summer school organized by the ...

After praying the Sunday Angelus at his summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo, Leo headed to the astronomical observatory located ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Pope Leo on Friday, the Vatican said, a day after an Israeli strike on ...

A new book suggests Chicago-born Richard Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...

In 2025, Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican Observatory. He commemorated the 1969 moon landing. He observed the Sea of ...

The first American pope arrives at the papal summer retreat to work on his encyclical, with suggestions it should avoid politics and focus on religious liberty and vocations.

Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 ...

Pope Leo has declared the medical recovery of a newborn baby a miracle. See what church officials say happened that day in 2007 ...

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 renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Speaking on Sunday after his Angelus prayer, he urged ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing with a video call to U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin.