and art and artifacts inspired by her love story, including the bed featured in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film about the ...

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into ...

Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus, a work written around 200 CE about well-read people philosophizing and enjoying good food and ...

The head of the basilica that is housing Pope Francis's tomb says it reflects his "humble, simple and essential" life.

Following the death of the Pope, the Vatican will enter a nine-day mourning period known as the Novendiale, an ancient Roman ...

When he was elevated to the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was widely expected to shake up the Catholic Church, to liberals’ ...

Pope Francis will be buried at Santa Maria Maggiore, a basilica full of light, history, and deep personal meaning ...

The Catholic Church has had a thorny relationship with music, but the late Pope Francis reportedly enjoyed a broader taste in ...

I met Julie Averbach at Book Trader to talk about another trader: Joe. Her debut publication, “The Art of Trader Joe’s,” ...

Dozens of heads of state attended the funeral service for Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, at St. Peter’s Square today. Follow here for the latest.

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest, the Vatican said, ending an often turbulent reign in which he ...

An excellent way to link these sights is by bicycle; rent a CitiBike and follow the curvy, paved promenade from leafy Lummus ...