Once upon a time, popes used their given names. But then a guy named Mercurius got the job and everyone decided that a ...

The election of an American as pope is being recognized as a historic choice, but Chicago-born Robert Prevost represents ...

Reigning from 1513 until 1521, Leo X is probably best known for excommunicating Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther, ...

according to Modern Reformation. For the past several centuries, popes have traditionally lived in the Papal Apartments of the Apostolic Palace, located on over 100 acres of land called the ...

His blatant abuses of the papacy are considered to be partly responsible for the Protestant Reformation. The pope is one of the five most powerful people in the world Before his passing ...

UN President Donald Trump has sent a congratulatory message to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the newly announced Pope of ...

The Pope refused and Henry decided to make himself ... This period is known as the English Reformation. Religious discrimination grew on both sides and after the reign of Henry VIII, the religion ...