"Napoleon met an obstinate opponent to some of his pretensions in Pope Plus VII ... and stormed as he paced the polished floor, while Pius VII, sat in a large eagle-studded chair, attentive ...

Source: INSIDER Boniface VIII said pedophilia was no more problematic ... Alexander VI received a letter from Pope Pius II condemning him for hosting "several ladies of Sienna" late at night.

Also known as the Institute for the Works of Religion, the Vatican Bank is a private bank located in Vatican City founded by Pope Pius XII in 1942. Over the decades, the bank has been at the ...

As Secretary of State his achievements have been less spectacular than those of such predecessors as Cardinal Consalvi who wangled a concordat from Napoleon for Pope Pius VII or even Cardinal ...

A remarkable, inspiring, and influential political, financial, philanthropic, and religious figure, Montefiore led a life ...

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Even the new Holocaust Museum in New York unjustly criticized Pope Pius XII for being silent during World War II. The Church has recently spoken on this topic. The Israeli consul, Pinchas E.

Book Review: With the election of Pope Francis, author Paul Collins evidently thinks that the time is right for a fairly trenchant review of two centuries of the papacy and that the papacy of ...

Pius XIII is in a coma. And after an unpredictable and mysterious turn of events, the Secretary of State Voiello succeeds in the enterprise of having Sir John Brannox, a moderate English aristocrat, ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

An American named Lenny Belardo becomes pope, Pius XIII, and shocks the Vatican with his reforms and public relations strategies. He chooses the nun who raised him, Sister Mary, as his closest adviser ...