In the West, the practice of exchanging rings to mark a betrothal dates back to ancient Rome, when noble families would trade ...

Come spesso accade, a distanza di molti secoli anche i Romani giunsero a una conclusione simile, solo che anziché parlare di "nervo" parlavano della vena amoris ("vena" dell’amante).

Photographed by Bastian Achard For fashion lovers who set their The RealReal alerts for Vena Cava, it may seem conceptually hard to believe that the sleek, minimalist jewelry line Sophie Buhai is ...

In a very seventeenth-century-coded turn of events, the pope circulated a letter among the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rebuking (though without naming) the vice president over his ...

To the editor: Over the last 30-plus years, I have seen so many miracle stories when a mentor Big Brother or Big Sister extends “open arms,” as Father Gregory Boyle puts it in his op-ed ...

A leading American bishop has described the debate over ordo amoris as a “non-issue” despite the term being used to defend US President Donald Trump’s position on immigration. The concept ...

I won’t pretend to a particularly deep understanding of St. Augustine’s notion of ordo amoris — about which Vice President JD Vance has encouraged us all “to google” — or of St. Thomas ...

It carries oxygenated blood away from the left ventricle to the body. The vena cava is the largest vein in the body. It carries deoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart. The pulmonary ...