Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88 after suffering a stroke, setting off mourning in the Catholic world and ...

It is Jesus who meets us in our infancy, walks with us in our growth, shares in our suffering and celebrates as we embody the ...

Late March of last year, Pope Francis visited Rebibbia women’s prison, where the pope washed the feet of twelve prisoners in a centuries-old ritual. One inmate recounts this experience.

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ... As ...

The official responsible for charity and prison pastoral care in Rome has described how the pontiff gave a massive sum from ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

Researchers say the man’s spinal damage, lung inflammation, and lion bite offer a rare glimpse into the brutal reality of ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

Archeologists in the UK and Ireland recently uncovered a rare find: the skeletal remains of a gladiator from Roman-era ...