A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The pope is chosen during a ...

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

The pope’s funeral will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said. The funeral Mass ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...

The younger of these two women ... social-media Hellenists power racist delusions of the past with Greek and Roman statuary. But nothing here looks anything like it would have in ancient Rome.

On February 6, just a few days before he was admitted to hospital, Pope Francis confused even the most seasoned Vatican ...

Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social hierarchy than ... architectural styles, including Egyptian-style pyramid ...

His death ends a historic chapter for the Catholic Church. The first Latin American pope, he opened the doors of his faith to ...

Harpies were commonly imagined as an amalgam of a bird’s body, such as wings and claws, with a woman’s head. The ancient ... path to Rome. The story of Phineus helped harpies become a metaphor for ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

For example, Dr. Benjamin Norquist is the director of The Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East. Norquist has spent a ...