Pope Francis' coffin is making its final trip through the streets of Rome after a requiem Mass for the beloved pontiff who died on Monday.

Dozens of world leaders, at least 11 reigning monarchs and tens of thousands of mourners were on hand to give Pope Francis a ...

Though dramatic images of ancient Roman gladiators fighting great beasts like lions and tigers have appeared in books and ...

President Trump and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy met privately earlier and had a "very productive session," according to ...

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola committed to spirituality and social action.

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

The Romans famously claimed to be descended from the Trojans, but does this legend have any basis in actuality?

Presidents, royalty and a multitude of simple mourners bade farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday at his funeral, where a cardinal said the pontiff's legacy of caring for migrants, the downtrodden and ...

The Catholic dioceses hoping to run the nation's first religious charter school say anti-Catholic bias was behind many states' bans on public funding for sectarian schools.

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

A Roman-era skeleton from York, northern England, shows signs of having been bitten by a big cat, thus providing the first ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...