When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, ...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Spain’s King Charles ... Inca emperor Atahualpa is shown in a 19th-century portrait. BPK/Scala, Florence The Inca emperor Atahualpa received warning that Spanish ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

A cottage industry has sprung up around Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope. Many of the revenue streams—even in Rome—are ...

It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of ...

The name also conjures memories of one of the most distinctive of all papal canvases, Raphael’s 1518-20 group portrait of Pope ... of a western European Holy Roman Emperor.

France or the Holy Roman Emperor. The visual narratives also cover the varied means of announcing the news of a new pope, which might in the 16th and 17th centuries have been signalled by cannon ...