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Some of the earlier popes, especially in the Borgia-heavy Renaissance era, were notably corrupt and secular — see Pope Alexander VI, who lived ... a persistent urban legend says he was dressed ...

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In 1379, Forlimpopoli came under the control of Sinibaldo Ordelaffi, who became lord of the city by concession of Pope Urban VI. It was he who transformed the fortress into a real fortress, beginning ...

Pope Francis will travel to the Mediterranean island of Corsica on Dec. 15. It's his third visit to France that avoids the ...

Pope Francis referred to St. Paul VI's affirmation that the "rupture between the Gospel and culture is the tragedy of our age ...

Citing Pope St. Paul VI’s 1975 apostolic exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, which highlights “the rupture between the Gospel and culture,” the pope said it is necessary that the institute cont ...

"The Portrait of Maffeo Barberini" features the future Pope Urban VIII, who hailed from the noble Roman Barberini family and was a friend of Caravaggio's patron. A visitor looks at the private ...

Pope Francis presided over a solemn event Monday at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Argentina and Chile that ...

He died in 1610 in his late thirties, after a turbulent life. His portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, who would go on to become 17th century Pope Urban VIII - a great patron of the arts who had ...