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When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

LONDON — Bernardine Evaristo doesn't like boundaries. For the Booker Prize -winning novelist, rules about genre, grammar or what a working-class biracial woman can achieve are all to be challenged and ...

In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

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From saints and scholars to fearless reformers, these popes didn’t just shape Church history — they shaped my life of faith.

Tribune columnist Marc Hyden announced the international release of his fourth book on Roman history, "Emperor Titus: The ...