On Dec. 25, 800, Frankish king Charlemagne is crowned as the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. In 799, Leo fled Rome after being assaulted ...

He found himself filled with the Holy Spirit and immediately began ... Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Constantine then needed to establish exactly what the ...

Though Charlemagne gained no substantial territory, the coronation created a confederation that would last for a thousand years—the Holy Roman Empire. Many historians credit Charlemagne with ...

Pope Pius XI last week appointed Andrew Francis Cardinal Fruhwirth, papal nuncio at Munich, to be Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church. Thereby His Holiness revived an office, founded originally to ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis started the countdown on Thursday to the 2025 Holy Year, or Jubilee, which is one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important events and is expected to draw tens of ...