Or that at 88, he is one of the oldest popes ever. Francis still has a ways to go to outlive Pope Leo XIII — who died in 1903 at 93 — but he's on track to equal or surpass Pope Gregory XII, perhaps ...

and Pope Leo X (1513–1521), were great patrons of the arts, funding masterpieces like Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. However, their extravagance and the widespread selling of ...

In 400 he entered into the discipleship of St. John Chrysostom, going to Rome to defend the much-oppressed saint before Pope ... at the behest of Pope Leo I the Great so as to inform the Western ...

Pope Francis, hospitalized since February 14th ... former archbishop of Boston, or Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, who was previously archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri.

Blessed Pius IX’s successor, Pope Leo XIII, went on to dedicate an encyclical letter to devotion to St. Joseph — Quamquam ...