Featuring gods and emperors alike ... who claimed that the Pope tasked him with safeguarding the cultural heritage of ancient Rome. Portrait of a Young Woman, known as the Maiden of Vulci ...

In his column — featuring the insights and humor we’ve come to expect from Epstein’s work — he compares today’s economists to the augurs of ancient Rome ... how the gods were disposed ...

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Caligula was adored by the people of Rome, too, in part because of their love for Germanicus but also out of sympathy for the ...

The funeral for Francis, the first first Latin American pontiff, is set for 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Peter's Square in The ...

Each elector swears an oath to protect the church’s freedom and the secrecy of the conclave. As the last oath is complete, ...

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum ... Pope Francis contrasted “God’s economy, which does not kill, discard, or crush” with today’s world built on “calculation and ...