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The Vatican is teaming up with two Chicago hospitality heavyweights, chef Art Smith and restaurateur Phil Stefani, to open a restaurant at Borgo Laudato Si’, located within the historic Papal Villas of Castel Gandolfo. The collaboration was announced in early September as part of the inauguration of the 135-acre property, with Pope Leo XIV presiding over a ceremony, Eater Chicago reported. The yet-to-be named restaurant is expected to open in spring. The restaurant will be open for breakfast and lunch, and “will highlight farm-to-table Italian cooking with global touches, drawing influences from Chicago and Peruvian flavors in honor of Pope …

More than a million young people attended the closing Mass of the Jubilee dedicated to them in Tor Vergata, in the suburbs of Rome. “We are closer than ever to young people who suffer the gravest evils, caused by other human beings. We are with the young people of Gaza, we are with the young people of Ukraine, with those of every land bloodied by war,” Pope Leo XIV said during the Angelus in English, AGI reported. “You are the sign that a different world is possible: a world of brotherhood and friendship, where conflicts are resolved not with weapons …