ANALYSIS: Who will lead the Holy Week liturgies? Will Francis meet in person with King Charles? These are just some of the questions the Vatican must answer in the coming days.

King Charles and Queen Camilla postponed their visit to the Vatican at the advice of Pope Francis’ doctors, who say the Holy ...

Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

At its height it was also the largest building of its type north of the Alps, showing the importance of London within the Roman Empire. A reconstruction of how the basilica and forum may have looked ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town ...

The Roman Empire gave its place to the Roman Catholic Church. Photo of the facade of the Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. Credit: Alvesgaspar Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 When the Roman Empire ...

A 2000 year old novel, considered a “gossip-y” account of the Roman Emperors’ personal lives, has entered the book's bestseller charts. The Lives of the Caesars, originally written in Latin ...

When we last left Frederick II, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor after years of struggle. But this episode dives into Frederick’s fraught relationship with the papacy, his bold diplomacy with ...

Born Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus in A.D. 12, Caligula rose to power in A.D. 37 as the third Roman emperor. Nicknamed “Caligula,” meaning “little boots,” after the miniature soldier ...

Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary. The eldest daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, Maria Theresa first ascended to power after his death in 1740. She later became the Holy Roman Empress.