Said to have foreseen major world events from the rise of Hitler to COVID, the 16th-century ... the pope would die around August 10 1492, if not sooner. When Innocent died on July 25, Ludovico ...

Is it possible to see into the future Many believe that a man named Michel de Nostradamus could His predictions of the future have mystified scholars for over four hundred years Nostradamus made ...

The most recent Italian pope, the first pope born in the 20th century, abolished papal coronation, first with "the First" in name, the last to use the sedia gestatoria before the popemobile ...

Pope Benedict XVI said he wanted to pay homage to Benedict XV, who led the church during World War I and dedicated himself to healing the rifts of war, and to the 6th century St. Benedict ...

For most of the Catholic Church’s first millennium, popes used their given names. The first exception was the 6th century Roman Mercurius, who had been named for a pagan god and chose the more ...

In the early years of the Catholic Church, popes kept their birth names. The first exception came in the 6th century when Mercurius chose to be called John II, casting off his original name ...

Genealogists have found that his paternal grandparents in Chicago were once accused of a charge that might seem prudish now: A century before Robert Prevost became the pope, his grandparents were ...

Since the sixth century C.E., new bishops of Rome have often taken a new name. Jorge Mario Bergoglio opted for “Francis,” the first pope to do so. Prevost chose “Leo,” making him the 14th ...

it means no pope has been elected. In order to maintain secrecy with the election process, the tradition of burning ballot papers dates back to at least the 15th century. When a chimney was ...

(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) More than a century ago, Pope Leo XIII issued Rerum Novarum, the Church’s groundbreaking endorsement of workers’ rights. With global inequality surging and ...

For most of the Catholic Church's first millennium, popes used their given names. The first exception was the 6th century Roman Mercurius, who had been named for a pagan god and chose the more ...