A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders gathered in ...

While Medieval Conclaves could extend for months and even years, the rules were tweaked by Pope John Paul II and Pope ...

Although molecular traces of ancient wines have been found staining pottery walls, this is the oldest wine in a liquid state ...

At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the ...

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly ...

Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling are joined by the one and only Emma Southon author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Her new book is A History of Rome in 21 Women. Mixed by Tom ...

The Samnites were Italic tribes that migrated from Central Europe to the mountainous south-central region of Italy in the 9th century BC.

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

Caligula was adored by the people of Rome, too, in part because of their love for Germanicus but also out of sympathy for the ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

Dozens of heads of state attended the funeral service for Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, at St. Peter’s Square today. Follow here for the latest.