The papal election started out with a once-a-day meeting at the Episcopal Palace in Viterbo, as tradition dictated that the ...

Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of ...

AD. The Eternal City, once the capital of the Empire, now under Ostrogothic rule, prepares to receive a new pontiff. But this ...

Of course, since Peter the disciple was crowned the first pope by Jesus Christ, all 266 popes have been men. However, legend ...

According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children in its study series “Teaching Young Children to ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

The absence of the staying hand of moral sanity -- especially among our political and technological leadership -- is taking us, all of us, to a new and anxious place. Zygmunt Bauman, who died in 2017, ...

The earliest known written record of vanilla is an illustration in the “Aztec Herbarium ... according to the study. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, made Prague Castle the imperial court in 1583, making ...

An illustration from the 14th century shows Pontius Pilate ... Pilate had his soldiers carry objects that honored Roman ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

Amid the carnage wrought by his decision to start a global trade war and send the stock market plummeting, President Donald Trump experienced a personal victory after winning a round of golf at ...