Swapping Lakeview for Vatican views, the students part of a class project gone viral are now walking the same places and spaces of the Catholic cardinals they once dressed up as.

Students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy in Lakeview, Chicago will attend an audience with Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.

Pope Leo cancelled the Vatican bank's sole authority over investments held by the city-state on Monday, rolling back one of the financial reforms of his predecessor Francis. In a short decree, Leo said the Vatican bank,

King Charles and Queen Camilla will meet Pope Leo during a visit to Vatican City after their previous trip there was canceled due to Pope Francis' poor health before his death.

Students from Chicago’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy are in Rome to meet Pope Leo XIV, and Noel Brennan has joined them. Noel has a postcard from Vatican City.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger downplayed the Trump administration’s climate skepticism Tuesday and threw his weight behind the Vatican’s environmental initiative, saying individual choice, local regulations and the Catholic Church’s moral leadership were far more important to “terminate” global warming.

Jelly Roll met Pope Leo and sang at the the Grace for the World event in Italy's Vatican City after previously struggling to perform overseas due to his past felonies.

The Vatican City State Court of Appeals handed a major victory to Cardinal Angelo Becciu and eight other defendants convicted in late 2023.

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis' more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican bank.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The Vatican's top diplomat sharply criticised Israel's "ongoing massacre" in Gaza in comments published on Monday - one of the Catholic Church's strongest condemnations of Israel's war against the militant group Hamas.