Vatican City, the world's smallest country, is facing a significant budget deficit.The city-state primarily relies on ...

The world's smallest country has a big budget problem.The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily ...

The 69-year-old former Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in history, has led around two dozen public events since ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing a Vatican financial crisis—and we just learned how bad it is. If any institution is too revered to fail, it’s the Vatican. But in terms of money, it’s on the brink.

The reforms most urgently needed when Francis assumed the papacy were a church in financial shambles and ... do so with rose-colored glasses. Pope Leo XIV inherits a Church that remains in urgent ...

Pope Leo XIV has been elected as the leader of the ... For one, the pope usually lives in the gilded Apostolic Palace—lavish living arrangements with all expenses covered by the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope ... Tight security and protocolStrict diplomatic protocol dictated the seating arrangements at his inaugural Mass, with both the United States ...