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

Robert Prevost has been named the new pope. But why did he opt to select the title Leo XIV? Here's a closer look at its ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

Robert Prevost has never had direct relations with Moscow, but the name he chose evokes very important relations in the history of relations between East and West in the ancient and modern Church, fro ...

Leo XIII, was also known as “the Rosary Pope” for his unmatched 11 encyclical letters on Marian devotion. Aside from Leo XIII ...

Otto I the Holy Roman Emperor pushed for Leo VIII ... During his 20-year papacy, Leo III crowned a Roman Emperor, setting a legal precedent that the "pontiff was the only individual with the ...

Specifically, the Dark Ages are often said to have ended in 800 C.E., when Charlemagne was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor.