When the Pazzi assassins attacked the Medici brothers, they unleashed a cascade of chaos, betrayal, and unimaginable violence ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

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To this Clement there succeeded Evaristus. Alexander followed Evaristus; then...Sixtus (the list continues)... In this order, and by this succession, the ecclesiastical tradition from the apostles ...

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) plans to collect about P8 billion from cases involving ghost receipts this year as it continues to pursue legal actions against buyers of fake receipts to plug tax ...

Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) is the creator of world-famous works such as The Birth of Venus. Adored by the Pre ...

Mary Major in Rome. Six other popes are buried in the basilica — Pope Honorius III, Pope Clement VIII, Pope Clement IX, Pope Sixtus V, and St. Pius V — but a pontiff hasn’t been buried in ...

Pope Sixtus V later reestablished the feast in 1585, and it is still celebrated today, commemorating the faith of her parents, Joachim and Anne, and the purity of Mary.

Photograph by Richard Hewitt Stewart, National Geographic According to a legend, Pope Sixtus II entrusted the Holy Grail to Lawrence to save it from the persecution of Emperor Valerian.

MACAU: A Catholic center in Macau has drawn inspiration from the life of Saint Lawrence to engage youth and promote Christian ...

Caravaggio, the 17th-century Italian painter who mastered the play of dark atmospheres and light, was known for his impulsive ...