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

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 ...

Pope Gregory VI made the mighty Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV freeze for three days in a snow storm outside his mountain retreat in Canossa in 1077. Mediaeval popes—not all but many—made not only war, ...

The biggest offender in this was German Emperor Henry IV ... the pope’s supporters. This conflict is known as the Investiture Controversy and it went on for years. Gregory VII was eventually ...

“We have a pope!” The Cardinal Protodeacon ... of popes who stand up to secular power: from Gregory VII, who made Emperor Henry IV walk barefoot through the snow at Canossa in 1077, to ...

John was the most popular, chosen by 23 popes, followed by Benedict and Gregory ... He was the 131st pope. Otto I the Holy Roman Emperor pushed for Leo VIII to be pope after removing and expelling ...