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 before Pope Francis eschewed those ...

I then made my way across the central nave into the chapel where two other popes are entombed -- Pius V and Sixtus V. Pius was a Dominican, later made a saint, who codified the Tridentine Rite. This ...

They surround the Courtyard of Sixtus V. In 2005, renovations updated the kitchen and clinic, Catholic News reported at the time. It's traditional for the pope to live in the papal apartments.

The official portrait of Pope Leo XIV, soon to adorn hundreds of thousands of Catholic churches, chanceries, parish offices, rectories, schools, chaplaincies and hospitals, is doubly significant.

According to some theorists, the clock started ticking in 1585, when Pope Sixtus V, considered a key figure in the prophetic timeline, became pope. If true, such a calculation hints that 442 years ...

Murray Forest, Western co-principal of primary at Yew Chung International School of Hong Kong (YCIS), explains financial literacy as “children having the language to be able to understand how ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

When he was prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost used to take long walks through the Borgo neighborhood in Rome. He lived in a simple apartment on Via di Porta ...