Genealogists have found that his paternal grandparents in Chicago were once accused of a charge that might seem prudish now: A century before Robert Prevost became the pope, his grandparents were ...

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first ...

Pope Leo XIV has announced his motto and coat ... Sandro Botticelli’s 1480 painting of Augustine in his study shows the saint searching for clarity of thought as he pauses his writing.

(CNN) — The Italian Open crowd has had plenty of local ... for Sinner this week after the world No. 1 met the new pope, Leo XIV, at the Vatican on Wednesday and gifted the pontiff a tennis ...

An NYPD detective dubbed the “Italian Sherlock Holmes” will finally be getting a gravesite marker nearly a century after his death, the Daily News has learned. Members of the Detectives ...

a 15th-century Italian monk — most of which was based on the traveler's descriptions. Marco Polo and travelers like him long shaped the Western perception of China and vice versa, according to ...

The tomb, constructed during the Lodi period in the late 14th or early 15th century, underwent inappropriate modifications in the 1990s when it was transformed into the office of the Defence ...

This devotion spread throughout Europe and was promulgated by the Franciscan friars in the 14th and 15th centuries ... examples of medieval Christian art. Some scholars believe that medieval ...

The Daily Pilot’s e-newspaper includes Saturday’s coverage of Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Laguna Beach, Fountain Valley and other parts of Orange County. The Costa Mesa ...