When a form of worship that organically matured over the centuries, finally reaching adult maturity at the Council of Trent–a ...

The Sabines, a Spartan tribe, shaped the early Romans with their martial skill, social order, and lasting cultural and ...

The institution of marriage has become something of a political battlefield. How did marriage begin and why?

A key figure in this controlled chaos was the Saturnalicius Princeps, or “Leader of Saturnalia.” This mock king was chosen by ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Gabii have uncovered a massive stone-lined basin that may represent one ...

There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and ...

Soon after I arrived at Francis Ford Coppola’s hotel in the Basilicata region of southern Italy, I stumbled upon the great director himself, at work in the hotel’s open-plan kitchen. He was wearing a ...

Pope Leo XIV plans to pray at an Armenian Apostolic cathedral in Istanbul in a gesture supporting Christian unity and ...

A Catholic priest I knew once joked that Anglicans are just dressing up as Catholics but with bad theology. According to a new study, a substantial number of Anglican clerics agreed with that ...

The pope celebrated Mass with some 5,000 people, many foreign-born Catholics, in an intimate Istanbul arena on Nov. 29, his ...

In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s ...