Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

While firmly part of Italy for more than a century, influences from that rich and complicated past can be seen in the architecture and tasted in the food and wine. Trento also serves as a dividing ...

TOMORROW, the seventh of May, geopolitics is likely to be read and thought of in pensive reflection as 133 cardinals will ...

Whether biking to castles or kayaking through gorges, a trip centred on this river is the epitome of European romance.

With this act, Leo revived the Western Roman Empire and set a precedent for the crowning of emperors that would be followed by subsequent popes throughout the reign of the Holy Roman Empire.

The region represents a cultural continental divide, creating a fascinating mix of the best aspects of French and Germanic ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

As Italy turned into a battleground between foreign powers, Rome suddenly found itself in the crosshairs of a marauding horde ...

When Jorge Bergoglio chose the name Francis upon becoming pope, it was a tribute to his favorite saint. Others took ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

From theologians to tacticians, emperors to reformers (and provocateurs), the Leos remind us that papal power isn’t always ...