By Edoardo Giribaldi The Holy See’s diplomacy with contemporary African states is a "service to humanity," focused on ...

Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590) decreed 70 to be the limit of ... the same thing happened: The bells rang for Pius XI as he arrived. Reportedly, O’Connell had a rather emotive conversation with ...

In the end, the cardinals choose someone both sides could agree on: Camillo Borghese, who became known as Paul V. The 1605 conclave ... Once elevated, the chosen Pope, Pius X, banned that type ...

then removed from the calendar by Pope Pius V in the mid 16th century. Pope Sixtus V later reestablished the feast in 1585, and it is still celebrated today, commemorating the faith of her parents ...

Curiously, a confused cardinal would sometimes remove his hat when passing by, thinking it was Saint Jerome. Since Pope Pius V ordered it in 1571, it adorns the fountain of the same name, which in ...

It is claimed that no Pope condemned slavery until then. According to one modern theologian: "...one can search in vain through the interventions of the Holy See - those of Pius V, Urban VIII and ...

author of “The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.” David Clay Large, a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute ...

These reprisals came to the attention of Pope Pius II, who produced a report in ... In 1933 Romanian archaeologist Dinu V. Rosetti and Romanian historian George D. Florescu opened a tomb located ...

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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, also called Borametz and Polypodium Borametz, or “Chinese polypody,” is a plant shaped like a ...

I die the King’s good servant, and God’s first’ More was canonised by Pope Pius XI in 1935 as a martyr ... to the possibility of an alliance with the Catholic Emperor Charles V. The search was on for ...

World War II–era Pope Pius XII is a controversial figure, long accused of indifference toward the plight of Holocaust-assailed Jews. But a "Jewish New Yorker who has made it his life's work to ...