Pope Pius XII funeral in 1958. INTERCONTINENTALE/AFP via Getty. Pius XII was externally preserved using oils and resins before being wrapped in cellophane, a system believed to be used with cloth ...

The Pope's name is Robert Prevost, but as is tradition he got to choose a special papal name, and it turns out "Leo" is a callback to the Pope that led the church during the industrial revolution ...

While Pope Francis led the call for respecting human dignity in the face of AI, it's worth looking a little deeper into the historical inspiration for Leo XIV's name choice.