While the Secret Service protects the U.S. president, the Swiss Guard protects the pope. So who are these men who ...

John XII came to the throne in 955, when he was just 18. Shortly thereafter, he turned his residence into a brothel, gambled with church offerings, and was even accused of castrating a cardinal.

Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in fact, the Pope really needed someone to paint the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo ...

Beards have long been thought to confer masculinity on its wearer, especially as a reaction to times of crisis ...

Apostolic Exhortation on Jesus Christ and the Peoples of Oceania: Walking His Way, Telling His Truth, Living His Life Pope John Paul II Rome, November 22, 2001 Reference to Mary: paragraph 5 and 53, ...

Carlo Maria Viganò, an excommunicated archbishop, slammed Pope ... United States, Europe, Australia and many other countries. There are two types of the virus—clade I and clade II.

A century later, the notion of a united Italy had evolved into a battle for independence, pitting Italy’s revolutionaries against the might of Austria and the Papal States. Although soldiers and ...

In the life and leadership of Julius Rosenwald ... Rewind the clock to the eve of the Civil War: In 1860, the United States’ Black population numbered about 4.4 million. By 1900—35 years ...

The Rev. Julius H. McAllister Jr., senior pastor of ... by McAllister who traveled extensively throughout the United States ...

Sky Original documentary tracing the complex history of Michelangelo's most controversial commission, the Mausoleum of Pope Julius II, which took 40 years to complete ...

The promotion of peace and human rights, the settling of armed conflicts both within states and across borders, the protection of ethnic minorities and immigrants, the safeguarding of the environment, ...