While early popes endured the split of the Roman Empire, the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance, more recent popes have had to deal with how to integrate the religion's historically strict teachings ...

The Roman emperors were central figures in the ancient Roman religion. The emperor also served as high priest, since he was ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion ... In some parts of the Roman Empire, abortion and infanticide were so prevalent that reproduction rates were below the zero ...

Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... Church, Primate of Italy; hmong others. As the Bishop of Rome he is the head of the Latin or Roman ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from ... is to think almost of an airport as much as a of a church or something like that. He created architecturally, a space that could ...

IT IS THE most sacred week in the Christian calendar. Tens of thousands of Catholics will descend on Vatican City for Easter Sunday Mass on April 20th, which will celebrate Jesus’s resurrection ...

Persistent illness and frustrating results in his effort to maintain the empire led to his stepping ... after he was ...

What Roman Catholic news agencies have described as Fr Rupnik’s “exalted status” in the Church and at the Vatican is suggested to have saved him, together with the fact that the women were not minors ...