An image of "Pope Gregory IX Approving the Decretals", created by Raffaello Sanzio from 1510-11 (Fresco).

An image of "Pope St Clement Adoring the Trinity", created by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo from 1737-38 (Oil on canvas, 488 x 256 cm).

An image of "The Meeting of Pope Leo and Attila", created by Francesco Solimenaz (Oil on canvas, 43 x 75 cm).

An image of "Predella panel: The Approval of the New Carmelite Habit by Pope Honorius IV", created by Pietro Lorenzetti from 1328-29 (Tempera on wood).

Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Adaline Falling Star" by Mary Pope Osborne. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.

A description of the history of Poland, starting with the Piast dynasty and moving forward to the current year.

McKenna Pope's younger brother loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven- because it was a toy for girls. So at age 13, Pope started an online petition for the American toy company Hasbro to change the pink-and-purple...

Kelly Richmond Pope explains how the fraud triangle, can help us understand how seemingly good people can make unethical decisions in their daily lives. [4 min, 34 sec]

The BBC features an overview on the small independent state of the Vatican City including key facts, historical background, and information on political leaders and the news media. Also provides links to recent news stories on the Pope.

Garibaldi was a patriot who started up a revolt in Sicily and took possession of the island, then passed over to Naples and overthrew the tyrant. This was done without the consent of Sardinia, but that kingdom profited none the less from...

Biographical notes, theological record, key insights, and viewpoints of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elevated to the papacy on April 19, 2005, becoming Pope Benedict XVI.

In 1839, Pope Gregory XVI founded the Gregorian Egyptian Museum with artifacts from ancient Egypt coming from Rome and the Vatican. This site features pictures and scale drawings of each room in the museum.

This article looks at this high office of the Roman Catholic Church. It is the cardinals that will elect a Pope when necessary. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the...

Pope Alexander VI was a pope of the Renaissance.

Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903). Archbishop, bishop, cardinal, chamberlain of the Sacred College, and Pope.

Lemuel Cambridge Owen became premier of Prince Edward Island in 1873, after Pope retired. He was thus the second premier after Confederation. Read a short biography of his life here.

(1835- ) Pope of the Catholic Church

Pope of Rome, son of Count Ludovico Pecci, born in Carpineto, Italy, March 2, 1810. In 1818 he entered the Jesuit college at Viterbo, later studied at the Collegio Romanio, and taught philosophy in German College.

The oldest pope and had the third longest pontificate.

Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, born in Bucks County, Pa., in 1842, died near King and Queen's Courthouse, Va., March 4th 1864. At the beginning of the Civil War he was sent by his father to plan and take charge of a naval battery on Maryland...

General Reno, born in Wheeling, W. Va., June 20th, 1823, died on South Mountain, Md., September 14th, 1862, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1846, and at once promoted brevet second lieutenant of ordinance. He...

General Stonewall Jackson, born in Clarkesburg, W. Va., January 21st, 1824, died at Chancellorsville, Va., May 10th, 1863, was graduated from the United States Military Academy, in 1846. He was ordered to Mexico, became a lieutenant in...

General Buford, born in Kentucky in 1825, died in Washington, D. C., December 16th, 1863, was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1848; was appointed brevet second lieutenant in the First Dragoons, and served on the plains...

General Warren, born in Cold Spring, N. Y., January 8th, 1830, died in Newport, R. I., August 8th, 1882, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1850, and assigned to the Topographical Engineers as brevet second...