In Pope Francis' autobiography Hope he reiterates themes of his papacy like hatred of war and unchecked capitalism, and a ...

Annone, a majestic 4-year-old albino elephant from India, five centuries ago was the pet of Pope Leo X. The white pachyderm ...

SOUTHWICK ― Eight wins in eight games to start the season is something to celebrate for most teams. But for No. 12 ...

Renaissance fresco in the Branconio Chapel of the Church of San Silvestro in L'Aquila depicting the elephant given as a present to Pope Leo X by king Emanuel I of Portugal in 1514. Credit ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights ...

“Drawing the Italian Renaissance” is filled with masterpieces ... was abandoned in 1521 just a year after it began, after Pope Leo X died unexpectedly from pneumonia, and 57 years later ...

The Jubilee dates to 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII invited Catholics ... There’s no shortage of Renaissance and baroque treasures to discover beyond the heavy traffic of the Vatican and Galleria ...

Cardinal Baldassare Reina emphasized three fundamental aspects of episcopal ministry while emphasizing that episcopacy is ...

the elite cadre that has been safeguarding the pope for more than five centuries. A striking combination of bold colors and Renaissance-inspired design, its signature blue, red and mustard-yellow ...

which popes used to transform the run-down ancient capital of the Roman Empire to a model of Renaissance architecture and art. By the time of the Jubilee of the year 1500, the city had gradually ...

Chuffed with his magisterial likeness—which Raphael drew from life, according to historical accounts—the pope decided to ... summa of visuality in Italian Renaissance painting, Raphael ...

the fact that he antagonized many of the most powerful rulers of the Renaissance, his often instinctive actions. But he could not be blamed for not loving his city. So much so that when Pope Paul II, ...