Unable to attend the Good Friday ceremony in person for the third consecutive year, the pope offered deep meditations for the ...

Archaeologists found another example of a crucified heel 49 years later in Cambridgeshire, England, in a grave in an ancient ...

Amidst the decline of Catholicism in France, the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Wandrille emerges as a powerful sign of ...

Je suis né croyant.” I’ve been snagging on that phrase for decades. It means, “I was born believing.” The mystic modernist ...

However, not all doubt can be resolved by correct understanding. Faith involves revealed mysteries that go beyond our human ...

In 1910, Baron Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen, an opium-addicted French poet (whose neo-Classical villa attracts tourists today), staged a human sacrifice to the ancient Roman sun god Mithras.

According to Heritage History, Aurelius first took the throne and governed jointly with his brother, Lucius Verus, before ...

To commit tax fraud with the slave trade in the most remote corner of the Roman world, what would you have to do, and what would have made the effort profitable? The ancient scheme has resonated ...

The allegations are laid out in a papyrus that was discovered decades ago in the Judean desert but only recently analyzed.

The bearded head was covered in layers of mortar—it was serving as a piece of the foundation for a church building from ancient Rome ... from Jupiter to a Roman philosopher.

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales of King Arthur and Merlin – and its survival is considered a miracle. The discovery was announced by the University ...