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

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The first coins to ever be circulated were the famous "Croesus staters" from ancient Lydia (modern Türkiye) from the 6th century BC. Since that time, countries around the world have adopted many forms ...

The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

As contemporary as they sound, these lines come from his 19th-century predecessor, Pope Leo XIII. The encyclical was entitled “ Rerum Novarum ,” after its opening words, which my prosaic Latin renders ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

A filmic companion to the Weeknd’s latest album, this meta psychological thriller is all style and no substance. By Brandon Yu A housewife’s domestic distresses take a horrifying turn in this ...

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Easily recognizable as the elephantdeity riding a mouse Ganesha is arguably he most popular Hindu God and one of the commonest mnemonics for anything associated with Hinduism The son of Shiva and Parv ...

What of Henry V, who during the battle of Agincourt in 1415 ordered the killing of several thousand French prisoners? Graham E. Seel is a modern historian who wrote the above quotation in his 2012 ...