Now, comes the photo of a White Sox hat where the Papal Tiara normally rests. To my friends back home in Chicago, I offer hope and redemption. Even the pope isn't infallible about baseball ...

Notably, while the basis for papal infallibility stretches far back in the church, it was formally embraced in 1870 in First Vatican Council. That date is critical.

Pope Leo Returns to Tradition: A Summer Break at a Papal Villa For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, leaving ...

Now, comes the photo of a White Sox hat where the Papal Tiara normally rests. To my friends back home in Chicago, I offer hope and redemption. Even the pope isn't infallible about baseball ...

Traditionally, it was adorned with the papal tiara, but in 2005 Pope Benedict XVI replaced it with the mitre to emphasize the pastoral role of the pope and his close relationship with the bishops.

<p>Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope on March 13, 2013, at the age of 76. The 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, he is the first Jesuit and the first to take ...

Rome Newsroom, Jun 17, 2025 / 06:47 am The town of Castel Gandolfo has said Pope Leo XIV will again partake in the centuries-long tradition of spending a summer vacation at the lakeside papal ...

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first American pope, wore a White Sox baseball cap during a public appearance at the Vatican, setting the tone for his papal style.

Leo visited the papal summer palace last month, raising speculation that he would resume a tradition that goes back centuries. Pope Urban VIII built the palace in 1624 to give popes an escape from ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will resume the papal tradition of taking a summer break outside Rome, the Vatican announced on Tuesday. Leo will transfer to the papal retreat of Castel ...