We dive into the fallout with Pope Sixtus IV, whose outrage over the hanging of Archbishop Salviati led to excommunications ...

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...

When the Pazzi assassins attacked the Medici brothers, they unleashed a cascade of chaos, betrayal, and unimaginable violence ...

Baseball legend CC Sabathia turns 45 and actor Chrishell Stause turns 44, among the famous birthdays for July 21.

Pope St. Sixtus II is portrayed on the 25-lire value on a background of bright purple. He was previously depicted on the set of two values honoring Fra Angelico (Scott 195-196).

Another icon of the Eternal City is the Circus Maximus—a vast open space capable of hosting large-scale collective events ...

The Vatican Apostolic Library preserves and digitizes rare global works, including Turkish texts, while offering scholars access to centuries of knowledge ...

In part two of this series, Abigail Leali traces how politics, architecture, and collecting shaped Munich’s artistic identity ...

On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tenn., in one of the great confrontations in legal history, ended with John ...

And you thought the Netherlands was just about tulips, windmills and clogs. Don’t you believe it. There are some very strange ...

One of my favorite travel companions, the Childers family, is sharing their multi-country summer adventure in Europe over the ...

Catholic educator Father Michael Tidd praises Pope Leo XIV's authentic approach to connecting with young people following Rome's massive faith gathering over the weekend.