Andrea Rosa

Pope Leo XIV pays tribute at the cemetery and on little Joussef’s grave, in Lampedusa, Sicily, southern Italy, Saturday, July 4, 2026, during a one-day pastoral visit to an island that has become a symbol of the risks faced by migrants trying to reach Europe by sea.(Pool Photo/Ciro Fusco, Via AP)

Pope visits US ambassador on July 4 after prayers at Lampedusa cemetery for migrant victims

July 4, 2026 at 4:14 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV spent the Fourth of July on Saturday in the epicenter of Europe’s migration debate to honor the tens of thousands of people who have died trying to...

Pope Leo XIV is cheered by faithful as he arrives to celebrate a Mass at the Santa Maria della Rotonda Sanctuary in Albano Laziale, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for local homeless people; older brother reveals favorite candy, pizza

August 17, 2025 at 1:42 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV spent the last Sunday of his summer vacation with several dozen refugees, homeless and poor people and the church volunteers who help them.

A rainbow shines over the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, where Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday, Feb. 14, after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened and is receiving drug therapy for a respiratory tract infection. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy PM Meloni visits Pope Francis in hospital, says he’s in good spirits as tests show slight improvement

February 19, 2025 at 5:01 p.m.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis for 20 minutes in the hospital Wednesday and reported he was “alert and responsive” and full of good humor, despite his diagnosis of...

Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters, return to Porticello on a small boat, on Aug. 20, 2024, near Palermo a day after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Divers find 4 bodies during search of superyacht wreckage after it sank off Sicily, 2 still missing

August 21, 2024 at 12:05 p.m.

Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of four passengers Wednesday and searched for two more.

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