The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a long history that led to a series of divisions, also known as schisms.

The Council of Nicaea convened during the pontificate of Pope Sylvester I in 325. The Vatican on Thursday released a ...

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a ...

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

María Carmen Rendiles is set to become Venezuela’s first female saint. Pope Francis paved the way after authorizing a decree regarding a miracle attributed to Rendiles, founder of the Congregation of ...

Carmen Rendiles, who died in 1977, was said to have miraculously cured a young woman diagnosed with a type of hydrocephalus.

Today is the 90th day of 2025. There are 275 days left in the year. 1995: Tejano singing star Selena, 23, is shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by founder of her fan club. Yolanda Saldivar is ...

The Jewish Diaspora, meaning the dispersion of Jews outside their ancestral homeland, was significantly shaped by religious ...

A trove of around 15,000 rare gold and silver coins hidden from Nazis and worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million ...

European high society gathered in Madrid to honour the Prince and his new wife, a descendant of the Bavarian-branch of the ...