Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began strategising and negotiating even before a pontiff died.

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On May 3, 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a ...

By Evelyn Uddin-khan A long time ago, a young man, disappointed with his political life, wrote a treatise on how to seize control of a country and maintain life-long power as the sole ruler of that ...

As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead ...

It’s Danny Kind, and he’s not even Catholic. But he’s in a college class that simulated the conclave of 1492. (There were ...

Enea Silvio Piccolomini left a detailed memoir of his election as Pius II in 1458. In it he describes a process of ...

The study confirmed what many applicants have observed: open source AI tools vetting resumés, like their non-AI resumé ...

May 4 (UPI) -- Actor/musician Shameik Moore turns 30 and singer Randy Travis turns 66, among the famous birthdays for May 4.