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

While firmly part of Italy for more than a century, influences from that rich and complicated past can be seen in the architecture and tasted in the food and wine. Trento also serves as a dividing ...

In the wake of the council, the Jesuits played a leading role in the Catholic Counter Reformation and the ecstatic, emotional church art that derived from it, exemplified by Peter Paul Rubens’s ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the next head of the Catholic Church ... depleted the papal treasury and failed to stem the Reformation. Leo X is also known for the hedonistic ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

Readers might enjoy the gross and gory fairy-tale quality of this new book — or its parallels to the Trumpian internet.

As the Jesuits assumed the role as defenders of Catholic orthodoxy ... The Jesuits of the Counter-Reformation promoted a humanistic Catholicism that recognised the power of art, music and rhetoric ...

From theologians to tacticians, emperors to reformers (and provocateurs), the Leos remind us that papal power isn’t always ...

Throughout history, there’s been so much drama at the top of the Catholic Church, it’s no wonder the movie Conclave was a ...

The election of Chicago-born and raised and Villanova-educated Cardinal Robert F. Prevost as pope at a time when the United States’ role on the world stage has never been more divisive has been ...

Readers of this column might know Trento for its pivotal role in a chapter of religious history: the Counter-Reformation Council of Trent. Convened by the Roman Catholic Church, the council ...