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

As pope, Leo XIV has focused clearly on peace policy, swiftly addressing the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He thus joins the ...

Do you have what it takes to suss out Destination X? In the premiere episode of Destination X, hosted by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, ...

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

As we file, Jannik Sinner, the leading Italian tennis player and world No. 1, is playing point for point against the Spanish star Carlos Alcaraz.  If the ...

Six hundred years later, Pope Gregory VII forced the brilliant monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, Henry IV, to walk barefoot in the snow for miles before granting him forgiveness at Canossa ...

He excommunicated Marcion ... He succeeded Pope Gregory XIII (May 13, 1572 to on April 10, 1585, where he was succeeded by Pope Urban VII (September 15-23, 1590. He was the child of an arboreal ...

Gregory VII: This Gregory was one of ... Gregory insisted that only the pope could recognize an episcopal appointment. He excommunicated the emperor three times, forcing him to submit to papal ...

The longest conclave on record dragged on for nearly three years. Pope Gregory X was finally elected in September of 1271 after about 1,000 days.

Bruno of Carinthia (in what is now Austria) took the name Gregory V upon being ... conclave in 1378 elected him pope, 647 years ago. He took the name Urban VII. In 1513, Cardinal Giovanni di ...

Pope Urban VII reigned for 12 days ... rather than to die in office, since Gregory XII more than 600 years ago, in 1415. Pope Benedict XVI. Pope John Paul II. He was the first Polish pope and ...