Pope

February 7 – Refused admission to the Pontifical Noble Guard, he became Pope instead

February 6, 2014

January 28 – Great in every sense

January 27, 2014

The Pope favors removing the Merovingians and acclaiming Pippin the Short as king of the Franks

January 20, 2014

Did Jesus wish to be born noble?

December 23, 2013

December 24 – Sts. Trasilla and Emiliana

December 23, 2013

December 19 – How Tumultuous Times Reveal Noble Souls

December 19, 2013

Bad elites hastened the fall of Constantinople

December 12, 2013

December 10 – To protest the emperor, he paid special honor images and relics

December 9, 2013

December 10 – The First Pope to Live in a Palace

December 9, 2013

December 11 – Pope Falsely Accused of Adultery

December 9, 2013

December 1 – The Virgin Mary appears to General Gaston de Sonis after his army’s losses at Patay promising that France would survive

November 28, 2013

Christ the King? Or Christ the President?

November 21, 2013

August 13 – The Pope Who Resigned

November 18, 2013

November 13 – One of the Great Popes of the Middle Ages

November 11, 2013

The Pope favors removing the Merovingians and acclaiming Pippin the Short as king of the Franks

November 7, 2013

November 10 – Who Was the First Pope to Be Called “Great,” and Why?

November 7, 2013

November 3 – The Battle of Mentana

October 31, 2013

October 24 – Confessor to the Queen

October 24, 2013

October 25 – The original hood

October 24, 2013

October 17 – Anniversary of state visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Vatican

October 17, 2013

October 18 – The day that sparked the Crusades

October 17, 2013

October 11 – He dared step into the gap during the crisis

October 10, 2013

October 3 – Enemy of King St. Louis, but still his friend in Christ

October 3, 2013

Pontifical Orders and Titles of Nobility

September 30, 2013

September 25 – Princely Umpire in a deadly sport

September 23, 2013

September 19 – The Pope asks Princess Mary to marry James II of England

September 19, 2013

September 16 – The pope who exacted tribute from the Mohammedan ruler of Tunis

September 16, 2013

Video – Redefeating the Turks: the Battle of Vienna, September 12, 1683

September 12, 2013

September 11 – Italian army invades the Papal State without a declaration of war

September 9, 2013

The Family and Intermediary Associations

September 5, 2013

September 5 – Unashamed to beg alms even from his noble family

September 5, 2013

September 7 – The Outrage of Anagni

September 5, 2013

September 8 – He added the Agnus Dei to the Mass

September 5, 2013

September 3 – All the principles of Catholicism can be found in his life

September 2, 2013

In Forming the Holy League, St. Pius V Prepares for Victory at Lepanto

August 26, 2013

August 22 – The pope who preached a Crusade against the German Emperor Frederick II

August 22, 2013

Principle of Authority as Coordinator

August 15, 2013

August 12 – His pontificate was spent in opposing royal absolutism

August 12, 2013

August 13 – The Ottomans lived in fear of this Capuchin

August 12, 2013

The young daughter of an American elite family had the fondest memories of Pius IX, the Pope-King

August 5, 2013

August 6 – Noble widower made pope

August 5, 2013

July 29 – With one sermon, he launched the Crusades

July 29, 2013

Are elites enemies of progress?

July 25, 2013

The Nobility: A Particularly Distinguished Order in Human Society—It Will Have Special Accounts to Render to God

July 11, 2013

July 8 – The Pope who fought the democrats

July 8, 2013

Sovereign Military Order of Malta – 900 years

June 24, 2013

June 20 – The Pope Who Was the Son of Another Pope, Also a Saint

June 20, 2013

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 10, 2013

Clergy, Nobility, and People

May 23, 2013

May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison

May 23, 2013

May 25 – He Forced the Emperor To Wait Three Days in the Snow

May 23, 2013

May 6th – New Swiss Guards sworn in – Rome Reports

May 6, 2013

May 7 – The Pope who adopted two princes

May 6, 2013

April 30 – Crusader Pope

April 29, 2013

April 19 – As pope, he led his army against the Normans

April 18, 2013

The privilège du blanc and God’s love for inequality

March 21, 2013

March 15 – Pope St. Zachary

March 14, 2013

St. Gregory VII’s struggle against Henry IV (Holy Roman Empire)

March 11, 2013

How a Pope buys firewood from a poor beggar girl

March 4, 2013

Is it a resignation or an abdication? – CNN

February 14, 2013

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