The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

Throughout the history of Rome, from the republic to the age of empire, the Roman Legions were the best conventional fighting ...

The earliest Christian community was an underground movement. The first pope, Peter, led from the shadows, not the throne.

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

The relationship between Christianity and the Roman Empire is one of profound significance, and has shaped the evolution of ...

A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than ...

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

These tariffs are part of a broader pattern of economic policies that have not only hurt global relationships but also ...

In the summer of 2024, a team of archaeologists was called in at a housing project in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district and ...

David Nicholson, who was MP for Taunton in a previous life, has penned a book investigating threats to the western world ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

The narrative of weak, queer men being the progenitors of societal downfall does not hold as many parallels to history as ...