Gridiron can refer to a football field. In the late 1800s American football fields were marked in a grid pattern, not the ...

As a Catholic who attends the traditional Latin Mass, I love Pope Leo XIV; all Catholics have a duty to render filial love ...

When the Pazzi assassins attacked the Medici brothers, they unleashed a cascade of chaos, betrayal, and unimaginable violence ...

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20; Gospel: John 17:20-26 In today’s readings, we hear a deep longing for unity — u ...

Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

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Although it is the official residence, Pope Francis does not reside in the Apostolic Palace and chooses the papal apartment instead ...

“He comes out with, ‘I’m thinking about Sixtus,’” Louis said. “He went, ‘I’m going to be Pope Sixtus the sixth.’” When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter’s Basilica last ...

The papal apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional home of pontiffs for over a century. Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday briefly ...

“He comes out with, ‘I'm thinking about Sixtus,’” Louis said. “He went, ‘I’m gonna be Pope Sixtus the sixth.’” When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter’s Basilica last ...