PEERING back 2,000 years to the age of Jesus isn’t exactly easy – but rare objects from those times solve the mystery of what ...

Christians from around the world prayed for Pope Francis at a solemn Mass on Wednesday at Jerusalem's centuries-old Church of ...

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During the 2005 papal conclave, a grey smoke signal from the Sistine Chapel left thousands of onlookers around the world ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several mind-boggling artefacts from two millennia ago, including a stone linked to Jesus ... as the fifth govern of the then-Roman province of Judaea between ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

From hilltop citadels to fortified coastal enclaves, we've scoured the world to find the most captivating walled cities, and ...

His body, lying in an open casket, was set to be taken from the chapel of the Vatican residence where he lived to St Peter's, ...

With Trump on the rampage, Alex Soros takes control of his father’s empire. What will he do with his influence?

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who died on Monday aged 88, established many firsts during his 12-year leadership of the Catholic ...

Feted for his humility and unorthodox approach, Pope Francis struggled to make the changes to the Catholic Church that many ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... of 2,000-year-old stone walls, sarcophagi, aqueducts ...