The Papal Coat of Arms Atop the Trevi Fountain Located at the very top of the Trevi Fountain is the Papal Coat of Arms. This is the coat of arms of Pope Clement XII, who commissioned the ...

But Bellini calls him out. Every cardinal harbors the ambition to be pope, he says, and has even secretly chosen the papal name by which he would like to be known. Speaking of names: Lawrence’s ...

The first vehicle, for use when the Pope is travelling at his summer residence, is white with the Papal coat of arms depicted on the doors. It is an ecological, sustainable-development version of ...

The Borgia coat of arms conveys the power associated with Lucrezia ... Her life serves as a vivid insight into the torrid world of papal politics at the height of the Italian Renaissance and ...

1, p. 242. In the late fourth century, in the absence of formal church councils, bishops from all over the Western Empire wrote to the Pope asking for advice on issues including celibacy, marriage law ...

This interpretative volume seeks to explain the first decretal age of late antiquity, placing the increased demand for papal jurisprudence – long before it exerted its influence through religious fear ...

Thank you for calling out the utter failure of China’s population control policies (“China’s One-Child Economic Disaster,” Review & Outlook, Oct. 19). There is more to this story, however ...

“The throne of the Holy See is vacant,” so the College of Cardinals has convened at the Vatican for a Papal conclave, to elect a new pope. While some cardinals come to Rome determined to rally ...