The late pontiff's radical housing choice broke with centuries of tradition and revealed everything about his vision for a ...

The Vatican has released solemn images of Pope Francis lying in his open casket, marking the start of nine days of mourning ...

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The papal transition follows ancient traditions, shifting spiritual leadership for over a billion Catholics and changing the ...

Alongside the will, the Vatican announced the pope died following a stroke that led to irreversible heart failure ...

As church bells tolled across Rome to mark the Pope’s death on Monday, cardinals from across the world began making their way ...

Pope Francis died on Monday morning, the Vatican announced, just hours after his last public appearance. The head of the ...

Former Archbishop of Buenos Aires sought to bring ‘common touch’ and modernising influence to Vatican, speaking passionately ...

Elon Musk has linked modern-day population decline to ancient Rome. The original post listed three reasons why people today are having fewer children: "Kids no longer earn — some stay in school till ...

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome, it all feels a shade familiar. In fact, tariffs were also used in Ancient Rome, and for some of the reasons that governments ...

Medieval Italian scholars had already taken an interest in Classical Roman civilization, but this new wave of Byzantine intellectuals were well versed in ancient Greek sources and greatly widened the ...

They were masters of ancient Rome – powerful, ruthless military generals who had expanded the sphere of Roman influence, seizing power for themselves and seeking to add the vast Egyptian empire to ...