Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

The tradition of popes taking new names upon their election is one of the most recognizable customs in the Roman Catholic ...

According to the Roman Catholic tradition of apostolic succession, Peter was the first pope appointed by Christ. The line of ...

Changing his name is one of the first actions the new pope takes as head of the Roman Catholic Church ... assistant professor in the history of Catholicism at the Centre for Catholic Studies ...

Necessarily, to claim to be “catholic” it has to say that only Roman Catholics are catholic. Even then history refutes its claim. For many of those whom it regards as orthodox did not accept ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church — and his papal name is Pope Leo XIV ...