Addressing the 159 cyclists in a square just inside Vatican City, ... including a replica of the Lourdes grotto and a mosaic of Our Lady of Good Counsel — a favorite devotion of Pope Leo.

Vatican City, Jun 3, 2025 / 09:00 am. Pope Leo XIV on Sunday blessed the cyclists of the Giro d’Italia before the last leg of the multistage international race, telling them they are all welcome ...

This spring, 52 pilgrims led by Bishop John N. Tran, traveled to six Marian sites in Portugal, Spain and France on a journey ...

Eleven service personnel from British Forces Gibraltar took part in the 65th International Military Pilgrimage [IMP] in Lourdes recently. The IMP is an annual event established in the aftermath of the ...

Lourdes as a Shrine and miraculous place Today, around the grotto, a neo-Byzantine, three-level basilica was built. Underground is another basilica, which holds 7,000 people and has a ramp for ...

Can Pope Leo XIV solve the Vatican funding crisis? Here’s how the Holy See manages money. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a big budget problem ...

Lourdes' Evan Ritter returns the ball to Cotter's Ondrej Vitasek during the Section 1, Class 1A boys tennis final Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Rochester.

During a meeting on Wednesday at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV received a hat of his alma mater, Villanova, from the National Italian American Foundation.

In the U.S., donation baskets are passed around at every Sunday Mass. Not so at the Vatican. Untapped real estate. The Vatican has 4,249 properties in Italy and 1,200 more in London, Paris, Geneva ...

The Vatican has 4,249 properties in Italy and 1,200 more in London, Paris, Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland. Only about one-fifth are rented at fair market value, ...

ROME -- The Vatican on Sunday beatified a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe, giving young people in a place with endemic corruption a new model of holiness: someone who ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.