When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

It’s fitting that it was the expansion-minded ancient Romans who built Europe’s first super highway — they understood the ...

It’s fitting that it was the expansion-minded ancient Romans who built Europe’s first super highway — they understood the ...

The Copts were (and remain) so devoted to Michael that they established 12 feasts in his honor, one per month, to be observed ...

For a more unusual and slightly eerie experience, visit the Catacombs of Rome, a series of underground burial sites used by ...

This pretty seaside city, also the capital, is found on one of Greece's largest islands, but it is so close to Turkey it ...

Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness ...

The former leader of the Chicago-area arm of the Passionists order made the promise two years ago in response to a Sun-Times ...

Orthodoxy in Russia is increasingly characterised as a separate religion, which retains the formal aspect of Slavic-Eastern ...

Pontius Pilate is inextricably connected with the prosecution and trial of Jesus Christ. His later life has been subject to ...