Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for unity within the Catholic Church. He spoke to priests during a special Holy Year week in Rome and he urged them to promote reconciliation and act in communion ...

The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...

By Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Flag-waving Jewish nationalists are set to march through the heart of the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday in a parade that could re ...

For the Holy Roman Empire, the eighteenth century was a time of existential concerns. In his Explanation of Germans’ Right to Trade with India (1752), the jurist Johann Julius Surland sought to ...

The idea that the Vatican has God on speed-dial was one of the first things tossed off the balcony in St Peter’s Square by Jorge Mario Bergoglio after he was elected pontiff.

Bannon, influenced by Edward Gibbon’s 18th-century opus, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” came to a different conclusion. Rome disintegrated, he argues, ...

“So the Holy Roman Empire had been around for a long time—we’re talking practically back to the Roman Empire. Was it the succession to the Roman Empire? That’s a little bit sketchy.

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

Billionaire Elon Musk criticized Democrats on Wednesday, saying, "They hate America." Musk said in a post on X, "The only flag being waved and the ONLY cheer by Democrats was for another country." ...

The man was waving a flag displaying a social media account when he climbed the 45-foot-tall sign on the southern slope of Mount Lee overlooking Hollywood.

If successful, the deployed flag will be the first to actually flutter on the lunar surface. Related: China's Chang'e 6 mission carried a stone flag to the moon's far side Sustainable and scalable ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air thick with lead, scientists found. January 8, 2025 ...