Welcome to Haunted Wirral, a feature series written by world-famous psychic researcher, Tom Slemen for the Globe.

As pope, Leo XIV has focused clearly on peace policy, swiftly addressing the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He thus joins the ...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Spain’s King Charles ... For another century, these would swell the coffers of the Spanish crown and fuel a European obsession with colonial expansion.

Initially driven by impoverished Bedouins, attacks escalated into deadly assaults on tourist hubs like Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab ...

On Christmas Day, 800 AD, he placed a crown on the head of Charlemagne and declared him Holy Roman Emperor. In doing so, Leo revived the Western Roman Empire—and set the stage for a millennium ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

The lock of hair, stored under glass on a brass medallion, has sold at auction outside Paris. According to legend, the French ...

This was built on by successive popes and Frankish rulers to cement the place of a western European Holy Roman Emperor. Leo’s coronation of Charlemagne as emperor was seen as a gesture of ...

For a particularly meaningful way to visit Rome’s major churches - and to sidestep the crowds - try following in the ...

Otto I the Holy Roman Emperor pushed for Leo VIII to be pope ... was the only individual with the necessary authority to crown the Western emperors," according to PopeHistory.com.