They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old ...

As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

The second floor of the old mansion on Fifth Avenue was where the Frick family once carried on with domestic life, above the monumental rooms of the ground floor, which housed one of the finest ...

The pope saw Van Gogh’s image of the sower, like Vigeland’s, as a message of hope. That message, to him, fits with the theme of hope of The Jubilee Year proclaimed by Leo’s predecessor, Francis.

‘The Sower,’ by Jean-François Millet. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston via Wikimedia Commons Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting, “The Sower.” But he ...

The last pope of this name, Leo XIII, reigned 1878-1903, as the world had been transformed by the Industrial Revolution. He set the church on the path of defending the working classes and calling ...

The Pope's name is Robert Prevost, but as is tradition he got to choose a special papal name, and it turns out "Leo" is a callback to the Pope that led the church during the industrial revolution ...

Cardinal Prevost’s choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice, and also recalls Leos I, III and IV, whose diplomatic and military achievements are ...

But if Pope Francis set up how the Catholic Church feels about AI, Pope Leo XIV citing it as a main reason for his name hints that it will be an even bigger part of the church’s focus during his ...

Why ‘Leo’? New pope shows support for workers, labor unions Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

He’s excited to see what the new pope can do for Catholicism. “We have a new leader and a new St Peter, if you will, and he will lead us into the next decade, at least,” said Bishop Kihneman.