I join millions of Catholics and good people on planet earth to congratulate Pope Leo XIV on his historic election as the new ...

AD 203, a young woman named Vibia Perpetua stepped into a Roman arena in Carthage, North Africa. The crowd jeered, wild ...

I stared at the sun. It really hurt. Yet, as I stumbled down Prez Lawn barefoot (#freethefoot) with holes burned into my ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to ...

The various Celtic peoples living across the European continent during the Iron Age experienced a cultural peak around the ...

I found the recent OBSERVER article presented by Linda Dunn to the Fredonia Shakespeare Club on “Antisemitism in Children’s Literature” eye opening. We see In the creation of characters like Shylock ...

Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

Antioch - 3 rd largest city of Roman empire; early Christian center (Acts 11:19-30; 13:1-3; 14:24-15:35; 18:22-23) CILICIA - region of very early Christian missionary activity (Gal 1:21 ...

In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ... In some parts of the Roman Empire, abortion and infanticide were so prevalent that reproduction rates were below the zero-growth ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first Pope from the Order of St. Augustine, which suggests he will promote peace and dialogue.