After the incident, Pope Leo ordered emergency purification rites "to restore the holiness of the place and ask forgiveness ...

The unidentified man circumvented barriers that surround the altar, climbed the steps and urinated on the holy structure ...

A man urinated on the Altar of Confession at Vatican City’s St. Peter’s Basilica during morning Holy Mass, stunning hundreds ...

The King will become the first British monarch to pray at a public service with the Pope since the Reformation ...

Before the statue of Our Lady of Fátima, which was brought to Rome from Portugal, the pope entrusted believers to the Mother ...

The Oct. 18 high school football game between St. Joseph (Montvale) and Pope John has been canceled. The game was canceled ...

Pope Leo XIV will receive King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a private audience on Oct. 23 and, afterward, for the first ...

Pope Leo XIV’s Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square was attended by 30,000 pilgrims in Rome for the Jubilee of Marian ...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and vicar general of the Pope for Vatican City, presided Oct. 13 ...

Pope Leo XIV’s brother previously confirmed that the pontiff’s loyalties lie with the Chicago White Sox rather than the Cubs ...