A crowd in front of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square in 2015. Giampiero Sposito/Reuters 2025-05-13T18:33:15Z ...

A crowd in front of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square in 2015. Giampiero Sposito/Reuters. Pope Leo XIV watched the papal apartments get unsealed this weekend.

Pope Leo XIV is reportedly set to reside in the Apostolic Palace, the historic residence of popes for centuries, according to reports. After being elected Thursday as the 267th supreme pontiff of ...

"The residence in the Apostolic Palace is tastefully decorated and large, but not luxurious," Pope Francis once explained. “It is big and spacious, but the entrance is really tight.

At the reopening of the Bronze Door of the Apostolic Palace today, Pope Benedict had a message for the world. “The house of the Pope is open to everyone,” he said. The Holy Father also said ...

Pope Leo XIV is expected to live in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, unlike the late Pope Francis who shunned the palace in favour of a Vatican hotel, according to several Vatican officials.

Pope Urban VIII built the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo in 1624 to give popes an escape from Rome. It was enlarged over succeeding pontificates to its present size of 136 acres, bigger than ...

Pope Francis had lived in the Santa Marta guest house in the Vatican, not far from St Peter's Basilica, since his election in 2013, and died there on Easter Monday. Unlike many of his predecessors ...

After Pope Francis' death in April, the papal apartments inside the Apostolic Palace were sealed, a ritual that symbolizes the papal throne is empty and secures his personal papers. On Sunday, those ...