While early popes endured the split of the Roman Empire, the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance, more recent popes have had to deal with how to integrate the religion's historically strict teachings ...

VATICAN CITY -- Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five ...

Pope Francis had died at the age of 88, a senior Vatican official has announced. History's first Latin American pontiff ...

How many popes have there been? Has anyone ever refused the office? For an institution that has existed for nearly 2,000 ...

The scriptures' chronicling of the resurrection of Jesus Christ gives hope to a world where inflated bullies continue to ...

How can we sure Jesus existed? Who did he think he was? What were his intentions? A look at what we know about what happened ...

Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with institutions from Canada and China, offers ...

MARTIN MOSSER, a member of the Vienna Department of Urban Archaeology who was part of a project that found rare remains of Roman soldiers traced to A.D. 80 to 234. He was saying that the horror of ...

Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of 66-71 CE, but soon surrendered to the Romans and became a collaborator during the destruction of the ...

But finding the dead — that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited ...