The White House and Vatican have had a relationship stretching back to at least 1919, and includes Pope John Paul II and ...

You have to be somebody who’s done this for a couple of decades to survive it.” Buxbaum Gordon stands by the bar room's ...

The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site — inhabited for thousands of years before it became a thriving Roman city on the crossroads between East and West in the 1st century CE. The ancient site ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

Amidst excavations at a historic mansion in Bratislava, archaeologists discovered an ancient Roman aqueduct system ... site of an older manor house from the 16th century, the medieval structure ...

Here are some of the key words and phrases that will be used throughout the interregnum, especially the conclave to elect the ...

On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the 266th occupant of the papacy, which dates back to St. Peter, the disciple ...

With the death of Pope Francis, announced by the Vatican on Monday, the Roman Catholic Church will begin elaborate rituals ...

"In the north-eastern corner, immediately above the northern abutment, there is a through hole in the masonry, probably intended to house ... the Roman persecution of Jews in the first century.

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...