In July 2025, a photo circulated online that claimed to show Pope John Paul II playing baseball. The picture appears to show the former pope, who died in 2005, in his papal robes while swinging a ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

With interstates closed and hundreds of thousands of people in attendance, KCCI got creative with our coverage of Pope John ...

The Mercury announces its first team, second team and honorable mention all-area baseball selections from the 2025 season.

Burt Odelson, Dolton’s attorney behind the deal, said that the owner agreed to sell amid threats of Dolton taking the house ...

It has been almost fifty years since the iconic visit of Pope John Paul II to Drogheda, but calls for the rebirth of ...

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II established full diplomatic ties.

After 12 years of sitting unused without its holidaymaker during the papacy of the late Pope Francis, who preferred to take time off in the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV has now revived this 16th-century ...

As Pope Leo XIV arrives in Castel Gandolfo for his summer break, it is unlikely to be a real vacation for the new pontiff.

The pope will stay at the papal retreat from July 6 to 20, and he will return for the weekend of the Feast of the Assumption ...

"The history of Peter and Paul shows us that the communion to which the Lord calls us is a unison of voices and personalities ...