During these thousand years, this period was nourished by legends and unfounded speculations, such as the alleged conversion of the Khazars, used to compensate for the lack of historical sources. It ...

Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...

The display, hosted by Blvgari at the Art Institute of Chicago, showcases the largest private collection of Imperial Roman ...

Ancient Rome unfairly has a reputation for having stolen or copied their mythology and religious traditions from the Greeks ...

One does not ordinarily think of the following activities as having deep political implications, or as sending a strong ...

I n 2005, the late conservative writer Lawrence Auster published a response to one of his critics. The critic argued that Christianity had added little or nothing of value to Western culture. Auster ...

The ban on Roman Catholics representing the King at the Church of Scotland’s general assembly is set to be lifted in a ...

Pope Francis said in a letter published Tuesday that his lengthy illness has helped make “more lucid” to him the absurdity of ...

From the stone circles of the Neolithic through the glories of Rome and the Renaissance to the ravages of the world wars, ...

Over the years, the Argentine pontiff has even imagined his retirement, envisioning life in a residence for elderly priests in Rome or serving as a confessor at the Basilica of St. Mary Major.

Greek and Roman religion venerated one plurality of gods, heroesbut also personifications of abstract concepts. The ancient ...

Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death. And he has personally directed that his ...