Before visiting Rome, Vatican City, and Italy's religious sites, read this Rick Steves-recommended book to better understand ...

Pope Leo XIV will formally begin his ministry as bishop of Rome with a liturgy steeped in tradition and rich in symbolism May ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

The Rev. Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote his doctoral thesis on the way local Augustinian superiors exercise authority.

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

I was surprised at David Brooks’s reductive binary between pagans and Judeo-Christians. He depicts the Romans in a simplistic ...

Pope Leo XIV, elected May 8, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine, also known as the Augustinians or OSA, an ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

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