The works on display comprise a visual and historical tour through sacred art and portraits from the Renaissance and Baroque ...

Pope Leo XIV has seen and experienced the Church in more contexts than perhaps any other person currently living...’ ...

Pope Leo XIV reopened the papal apartment, sealed since Francis’ death. The pope’s residence hasn’t always been in the ...

Pope Gregory X first established the guidelines ... In a ritual dating back to medieval times, 133 cardinal electors walked slowly into the chapel before taking an oath of perpetual secrecy ...

Other common choices include Gregory (16), Benedict ... there are 21 Johns, but no Pope John XX, and eight Bonifaces but no Pope Boniface VII. In the early days of Catholicism, popes simply ...

Sergius III spent his reign as pope under the influence of the powerful Theophylact of Tusculum, the medieval ruler of Rome ... Pope Urban VII reigned for 12 days, Pope Marcellus II came in ...

This harkens back to the ancient practice of the pope being hailed – and sometimes even elected as in the case of e.g. the famous eleventh-century pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) - by the Roman ...