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Who is Irish? What makes someone or something Irish? What does it mean to be Irish? And who gets to say who gets to be Irish?

I join millions of Catholics and good people on planet earth to congratulate Pope Leo XIV on his historic election as the new Pope. What does it take to become the Pope, the spiritual leader of over a ...

By Miran Sarkissian Pope Francis’ recent death and the inevitable Conclave of the Catholic Church’s cardinals to elect a new ...

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I was surprised at David Brooks’s reductive binary between pagans and Judeo-Christians. He depicts the Romans in a simplistic ...

The only surviving ancient Roman cookbook reveals the ancient origins behind Europe’s most iconic dishes and flavors.