Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman Catholic Church might take.

As the voting to choose the next pope gets underway, serious questions loom about Europe’s future influence on the Church.

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster ... On same-sex marriage and divorce, Francis’ blessing of same-sex couples faced a strong rebuke from African bishops and ...

People have lived on this farm for at least 2,000 years. Researchers now know more about the farm's past than the family who ...

Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off the motorized equipment ...

The world's first recorded case of triplets and a Roman-era king are among the remains of more than 1,500 people held by Hertfordshire museums. Curator Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews said remains held ...

A phallus-shaped good luck charm from the Roman era was found inside the wall of a fort. Screengrab from The Vindolanda Trust's Facebook post Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across ...