After holding a place of honor in the symbolic pantheon of Greco-Roman and early Christian iconography during the first ...

Ancient buildings like Greece’s amphitheaters and Japan’s temples remain in use today, preserving cultural heritage.

The fair has a jewel of a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, and other museum-quality items, but fewer standouts over all.

Tradition recounts that Longinus, a Roman centurion, pierced the side of Jesus with this very spear during the crucifixion.

The pope’s words emphasized his humility and belief that simple acts of devotion could unite the church. His illness has made ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis marks 12 years as head of the Catholic Church on Thursday, seemingly out of danger after a month ...

Newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new enigmas about the ...

On the calm waters of Lough Derg in Ireland, the small Station Island is home to one of the toughest pilgrimages in the world ...

What Benedict stored … Pope Benedict was a scholar, a theologian, who stored the deposit of faith, added to it, interpreted ...

The 88-year-old pontiff was for a time critically ill, battling pneumonia in both lungs at Rome’s Gemelli hospital ... who in ...