Tag Archives: History

Papal Power and Peculiarities: A Wild Ride Through Vatican History

For centuries, the pope has reigned supreme as the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church—no ordinary man, but an absolute monarch. When Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world by stepping down in 2013, he didn’t submit a resignation letter or host a farewell press conference. He simply declared it was so—because that’s how popes… Read More »

Fire, Ice, and Plutonium

Lasting from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War was among the most dangerous periods in all of human history. For over four and half decades, the communist east and the capitalist west eyed each other suspiciously across the Iron Curtain,… Read More »