These images of the Pope, one of a series of films shot by the enterprising WKL Dickson, capture the humanity as much as the holiness. It's a rare film in which the Pontiff refrains from giving out ...

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII. This was one of a series of films that exploited ...

it is difficult to find a parallel in the writings of Catholic or non-Catholic reunionists to the warmth of Pope Leo’s appeals. The reason is not far to seek. For Leo XIII the unity of Christendom was ...

From Wikipedia: Sua Santità papa Leone XIII (Italian for "His Holiness Pope Leo XIII") is an 1898 short film directed by William Kennedy Dickson for the Biograph Company and is one of the first ...

Nov. 10 is the Roman Catholic Church’s liturgical memorial of the fifth-century Pope Saint Leo I, known as “St. Leo the Great,” whose involvement in the fourth ecumenical council helped ...

In his introduction to Nazareno Padellaro’s biography of Pius XII (formerly Eugenio Pacelli) Daniel Rops places this Pope in the pantheon of great pontiffs, next to Innocent III, Gregory VII, Pius IX ...

Leo came from a modest family in southern Italy. He was elected to the office of St. Peter unanimously by the clergy of Rome following the death of Pope Hadrian. The papacy had dramatically ...

Pope Francis is older than almost any pope before him. According to Vatican records, only Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at the age of 93, lived longer.

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Pope Leo X was born Giovanni de Medici in 1475 and raised in Italy's most culturally sophisticated city, Florence, as part of the prestigious de' Medici family, renowned patrons of the arts ...

Pope Leo X was born Giovanni de Medici in 1475 and raised in Italy's most culturally sophisticated city, Florence, as part of the prestigious de' Medici family, renowned patrons of the arts ...