Science isn’t a winner-take-all, zero-sum game of flag football. Whether during the cold war or the era of Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, the bedrock of science has been international ...

A moment of history is unfolding in the Vatican City as an estimated 1.4 billion Catholics are preparing to bid farewell to Pope Francis during his final journey today. Scientists discover ...

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint ... In the context of the Catholic Church, the inverted cross is a reference to the crucifixion of Saint Peter, who is ...

Number 63 Baggot Street, in the heart of the city’s Georgian core, was the childhood home of the painter Francis Bacon. Over four storeys, a basement and a “turnkey” mews at the back ...

The convalescing pontiff wrote meditations for this evening's rite at the Colosseum, which he will follow from Casa Santa Marta. “The steps you take as you leave the city can foreshadow our own ...

The Australian Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan claimed Pope Francis was a “complex man” who led a complex and “cross-grained papacy”. “He was a man of God; he was a sincere worker for God ...

IN A.D. 1605 Sir Francis Bacon appended to the "Advancement of Learning" some prescriptions for posterity. These contain an injunction to construct "A Just Astrology". Bacon had previously ...

Pope Francis' funeral plans have been revealed as millions mourn the pontiff following his death on Easter Monday. The funeral is set to begin at 10am local time on Saturday, exactly six days ...