Stories set in ancient worlds beyond Egypt, Greece and Rome offer a rare sense of distance and depth. These historical books ...

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 first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia.

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

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque without praying there as he focused on strengthening ties with Orthodox ...

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 ...