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As cardinals gather to elect a new pope, ancient customs collide with TikTok trends, viral memes and a new era of digital ...

North Africa once produced Catholic popes who shaped Church traditions, including Easter Sunday and St Valentine’s Day. Will ...

Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," and one is ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

In the final stage of his earthly journey, Pope Francis Saturday was entombed in the papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major as a ...

Historians believe say three popes wit connections to Africa don dey, di most recent of wey bin reign over 1,500 years ago.

At the height of Rome’s power, the mighty empire often clashed with its powerful maritime rival, Carthage. Here’s what the ...

Here are the key things to know about the funeral of the first Latin American pontiff in the church’s history.

Virgil was one of Rome's most prolific poets, but how much was he influenced by ancient Greece and Greek writers like Homer?

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,300-year-old Celtic sword in France decorated with glass paste and swastika engravings, a ...