Per the basilica, there are currently seven popes buried there, includingPopeHonorius III, St. Pius V, Pope Sixtus V, Pope Clement VIII, Pope Paul V and Pope Clement IX. The latter, who died in ...

Pope Sixtus VII, will soon begin the formal responsibilities of his office. His name choice, Leo XIV revives a papal title that has not been used since 1878.

“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 ...

“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 ...

By 1588, Pope Sixtus V formally created the “College for Brokers of Wagers,” a legal body that oversaw public betting in Rome, where betting markets were integrated with shipping insurance and ...