During a press conference with American cardinals on Friday, Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said he did not think the ...

There's something about historical fiction and fantasy which go hand-in-hand. Take The Last Kingdom, a series of excellent novels by Bernard Cornwell. These boo ...

Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to ...

A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid blamed a lack of diversity for the fall of the Roman Empire and claimed the United States could go the same way if they don’t embrace DEI. The former "ReidOut" host ...

the cost of the project and the hurry to begin the construction of what was one of the megastructures of its time also have almost mythical status. The price tag was said to be astronomical. In his ...

The two-week trial, originally scheduled to start in December, was postponed because Graham ... by Emperor Hadrian in A.D. 122 to protect the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire had attracted ...

As the faithful across the globe mourned the life of Pope Francis last week, the focus now shifts to selecting the 267th pope to lead the nearly 1 billion Roman Catholics worldwide.

12:45: Lunch break 12:10 p.m.: Attorney John Keith Perry, representing Tadarrius Bean, begins his opening statement. He argued that, while Bean held down Nichols as he attempted to handcuff the ...