They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, had at least two illegitimate children. His sociopath son, Cesare, was born just a year after Giovanni de'Medici ...

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Alexander VI bought his way into the papacy and had a rollicking sex life. Alexander VI became pope in 1492 — but before then he was just Rodrigo Borgia, a member of the notorious Italian crime ...

Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. On a spring day in 1480, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ordered various astrologers to his home in Rome to ...

Pope Paul VI is the first Pope to be a Missionary Pope, to meet people where they are. To trust in God as he was asking The Church to do and he is given the opportunity to love that trust in its ...

Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar term about gays to reaffirm the Catholic Church's ban on gay priests. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a statement ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul briefly met with Pope Francis Thursday in an audience with other elected officials attending a climate change conference hosted by the Vatican. Hochul, who is Catholic ...

Tara Parker-Pope is the Well+Being editor for The Washington Post. She is an editor and columnist who has devoted most of her career to consumer health news and service journalism. Before joining ...