Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

So far, Pope Leo XIV has leaned fairly heavily into the legacy of his storied predecessor, Leo XIII, but he reflects Leo X.

While Leo X watched the breakup of Christendom in Europe and the start of turning Africans into commodities for trade, Leo ...

Hope: The Autobiography' is the first memoir by a living pope and Bridgewater actress gets recognized for her role in 'The ...

The election of Chicago-born and raised and Villanova-educated Cardinal Robert F. Prevost as pope at a time when the United States’ role on the world stage has never been more divisive has been ...

Then, there was Pope Leo X, the famous de Medici pope whose papal bull Exsurge Domine attempted to deal with the most famous Augustinian friar to date – Martin Luther. Much has also been made ...

Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci were all in Rome at the same time. Pope Julius II wanted to restore the Eternal ...

That Medici, a man of cultured spirit and sensitive to ... in Bologna in 1515 between the Holy See and the Kingdom of France. The pope’s face depicts the features of Leo X, while those of the emperor ...