With Roman help King Herod retook the city in 37 B.C., from ... from 6 B.C.—could be written off as a city for pagans, the holy city of Jerusalem was also threatened by the Romanizing instincts ...

But at this time, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was also king of Spain. And along with Spain also came regions of the Netherlands and the Low Countries. So because he was king of Spain and Holy ...

Francis delegated to two cardinals his role in presiding over this weekend's Easter masses, The Vatican Press Office said on ...

Every king, queen, knight ... He was excommunicated by the pope and rejected by the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, but he had captured the imagination of many in Catholic Europe.

Charles and Camilla were due to hold a separate state visit to the Holy See, but it was cancelled after the Pope was admitted ...