For Robert Prevost, summer has turned out very differently than he imagined. Robert Prevost never imagined that the conclave ...

The arrival of Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo on July 6, 2025, marked the return of a papal summer retreat after more than a ...

The prior also said that Pope Leo loves Rome “so much.” “He came for the first time in 1981 to study, and stayed for three years, and then returned in 2001 until 2013, he knows Rome very well.

Up in the hills above Lake Albano, a half-hour drive from Rome, is a small town known for impressive panoramas, a temperate climate and, above all, its world-famous visitor: the pope. Castel Gandolfo, ...