I am deeply convinced that history is calling on us now. Just like back in 1989, when the winds of change swept through ...

As pope, Leo XIV has focused clearly on peace policy, swiftly addressing the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He thus joins the ...

LEGACY: Despite its disintegration, the Holy Roman Empire left an indelible mark on Europe.

Donald Trump’s destruction of America’s 249-year-old constitutional republic and civic culture follows a historically ...

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

Discover Gio Ponti’s architectural journey in Milan, from neoclassical buildings to modern masterpieces, and his legacy today.

Later that same century, Pope St. Leo III crowned Charlemagne the first Holy Roman Emperor ... to confront the incursions of the Ottoman Empire into Europe, culminating in the decisive victory ...

It was the first example of a papal election by “compromise,” after a long struggle between supporters of two main geopolitical medieval factions — those faithful to the papacy and those supporting ...

when the Byzantine empress Irene — saint of the Greek Orthodox Church — offered it to Charlemagne, the king of the Franks, who was the first emperor (800–814) of what was later called the Holy Roman ...