As Pope Francis, the oldest pope in over a century, continues to decline in health, speculation is percolating as to who will ...

The United States is not so much retreating into isolationism as much as it’s acting as a great power with its own economic interests at heart.

Pope Francis has been diagnosed with double pneumonia, with the 88-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church reportedly ...

A collection of essays by the late David McCullough, including some never published before, will be released this fall.

The Senate has hearings before appointing cabinet secretaries and others to powerful positions. For instance, in the next few days, it will hold hearings to examine the nominations of Lori ...

Keanu Reeves followed the Matrix trilogy with a DC comics adaptation that's a little better than critics said it was in 2005.

Inside the super-private Torlonia Collection of ancient marbles, and the strategy to clean them up and bring them back into ...

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

Spurred on by the fervor of the Eucharistic faith of New Yorkers, six young adult perpetual pilgrims and I, accompanied by ...

The full title of the document — Exsul Familia Nazarethana, or “The Exiled Nazarene Family” — refers to Jesus, Mary and ...

But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

A scholar of religion and migration writes about the long-standing tensions among Christians regarding their moral ...