The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome announced its recent farewell to a "beautiful" stone head dating back to antiquity. It ...

At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the ...

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

Featuring gods and emperors alike ... Portrait of a Young Woman, known as the Maiden of Vulci, Mid-1st Century BCE. Roman, late Republican Period. Torlonia Collection, Rome.

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

God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning ... upheld the sanctity of the life of the unborn child. The Greco-Roman world at the time of our Lord and in which Christianity grew permitted ...

Many died by crucifixion, burning or by being torn apart by beasts in the Roman arenas, for boldly professing their faith and not worshipping the false gods of Roman culture. Are we willing to die ...

33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and [1] knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!

Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

Trump and the White House shared the image on their online accounts Friday — just after the 78-year-old president joked that the Vatican should contemplate making him the Holy Father when ...