Madonna has six children. Her first was Lourdes Leon, whom she had with her then-boyfriend Carlos Leon in 1996. Her second ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

The use of Persian carpets in papal funeral proceedings may seem like a surprising choice—that is, to those unaware of the long history of carpets from the Islamic world in Christian contexts.