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

Pope Leo XIV, an American and a global citizen, can be a strong advocate for the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of ...

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

We all know how that story ended. The Catholic Church has a proud tradition of popes who stand up to secular power: from Gregory VII, who made Emperor Henry IV walk barefoot through the snow at ...

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” A Shakespearean quote from the play, "Henry IV," yes, but for Wil Johnson, the actor who will play King Henry in this week's Southern Shakespeare ...

Clement’s friend and benefactor, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, later had to continue ... for electing the pontiff. Pope St. Gregory the VII later drove at the root of the issue, instituting ...

A papal conclave, following a strict canonical procedure, takes its natural course after the death of a pope and the election.

Gregory VII at Canossa (1077): Emperor Henry IV knelt barefoot in the snow, begging forgiveness before Pope Gregory VII’s walls. Even in the 20th century, fiction reminded us how much a Pope’s ...

Then, in 1075 Pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand) threw down the gauntlet ... Nor was that authority limited to spiritual matters: writing to Emperor Henry IV, Gregory made it clear that kings could, ...

Henry Edward Buecher IV, age 65, of Howell, New Jersey, passed away peacefully on April 24, 2025, at Mission Hospital. Henry was born on May the 9th 1959 to the late Bernadette Carol Mary and ...

When Alexander II found out that Emperor Henry IV planned to divorce his wife ... History does not know his cause of death. Gregory VII became the pope following Alexander II’s death, assuming ...