How and why were pagan temples converted into Christian churches in the later Roman empire? New research focused on the city of Rome suggests a more peaceful transition from paganism to Christianity, ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Disillusioned by their experiences in Catholicism, some Romans are turning to paganism and finding a connection to their roots through worshipping the gods of antiquity, whom they ...

The final decades of the second century BC, and the first decades of the first century BC, were an incredibly tumultuous time in Roman history. Besides wars against Rome’s allies on the Italian ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

Two American twenty-somethings may face a judge in Italy for apparently carving their initials into Rome’s Colosseum, according to a report Sunday. The tourists from California, aged 25 and 21, snuck ...

A group of US state officials flew free to Italy and stayed in a five-star Rome hotel thanks to a group funded by corporate interests. CNN’s Kyung Lah reports. Democrats float RIF reversals as ...

A leading group of climate change skeptics is concerned that paganism is creeping into the Catholic Church. That was the message delivered by Gene Koprowski, director of marketing at the Chicago-based ...

The Italian Cultural & Community Center will host a special presentation on Fellini's Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini, a recently released book authored by ...

Pope Francis with members of the Society of Jesus in Canada. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – While Pope Francis was on his “penitential pilgrimage” in Canada last week, most of the focus was on ...