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 ...

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

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 ...

The first Pope Leo’s convincing Attila the Hun to turn back from Italy, the penitence of the Holy Roman Emperor before Gregory VII at Canossa, Clement VII’s denial of an annulment to King Henry VIII ...

A new pope was elected by the ... Senior clergy appealed to Henry III, King of the Romans, who marched on Rome and removed all claimants. Gregory VII: This Gregory was one of the 16 men by that ...

“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 ...

For many centuries, new popes tended to choose the name of the pope who had elevated them to cardinal. John was the most popular, chosen by 23 popes, followed by Benedict and Gregory, each with 16.

In the 13th century, it took almost three years — 1,006 days to be exact — to choose Pope Clement IV's successor ... The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 ...

When Gregory died two years later, a humble friar was elected in an hour, with just one round of voting. The deliberations in 1292 were doomed from the moment King James I of Aragon provided gold ...

Pope St. Stephen II was the first sovereign of the Papal States, a gift from the Frankish king Pepin the Short ... electing the pontiff. Pope St. Gregory the VII later drove at the root of ...