World War II–era Pope Pius XII is a controversial ... were notably corrupt and secular — see Pope Alexander VI, who lived in wealth and openly doted on his children with mistress Vannozza ...

Tate Modern, the UK’s second largest tourist attraction (after The British Museum) will reopen on 27 July, along with the three other Tate galleries (Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives).

Back during the Renaissance, however, the Pope was anything but chaste, taking mistresses and having families. Among them was a man known as “the Devil Pope.” This is Pope Alexander VI, the patriarch ...

The turbulent relationship between Alexander the Great and his father, Philip II of Macedon, was one of the most complex and layered family dynamics in ancient history. Credit Egisto Sani. CC ...

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986, who becomes only the second Pope to visit Australia after Pope Paul VI's 1970 tour. On that time he was 66 years old, and had visited every state and ...

As Justin Welby leaves office, Martyn Whittock explores the early medieval history that explains the authority structure of ...

“Time to go troll wit @Lane_Kiffin,” Alexander II tweeted. Alexander II just finished his second season as a redshirt freshman at Wake Forest. He entered his name into the portal in the midst of the ...

The early years of the Renaissance were turbulent in Europe. Few places were safe from the political power struggles that ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991 ... who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. Reader: A large crowd ...

Geline Bowman Williams, 100, former Richmond city councilman and mayor, died Jan. 12. A lifelong Richmonder, Williams ...

At the Vatican Basilica, the opening of the Holy Door was first documented on Christmas of 1499, when Pope Alexander VI ordered ... Pope John Paul II opened the Holy Door for the Great Jubilee ...