The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...

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The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of crypts, ...

Leading the charge was Evo Morales, who three years earlier had upstaged history by becoming Bolivia ... In challenging the U.N., he became the first Latin American head of state to invoke ...

Former Archbishop of Buenos Aires sought to bring ‘common touch’ and modernising influence to Vatican, speaking passionately ...

On February 6, just a few days before he was admitted to hospital, Pope Francis confused even the most seasoned Vatican ...

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The council decided that the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Bible, was enough to understand scripture, and there was little need to investigate its original Greek and Hebrew version.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed ... He changed church law to remove the pontifical secret surrounding abuse cases and enacted procedures ...