When Pope Leo XIV stepped out on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica to greet the crowd for the first time after his May 8 election, liturgical fashion aficionados around the globe took note: ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

A show at the Saint Louis Art Museum explores technological and artistic advancements of the interwar period.

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

It’s an irony of history that Trump’s love affair with Louis XIV may mean that this experiment will ultimately be continued ...

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Matthew Bunson’s new book, Leo XIV: Portrait of the First American Pope, from EWTN Publishing and available at EWTNRC.com. The pontificate of ...

The portrait of Leo XIV created by the illustrator and cartoonist Sandro Dessì exclusively for unionesarda.it. The author, originally from Armungia, wants to pay homage to the new pontiff in this ...

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Over the last few years,the European Union has tangibly reduced its dependence on Russian fossil fuels, following Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and its weaponisation of ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls ... Trump has a Louis XIV-like obsession with it.