Marxism has had a huge impact on the study of the past in two distinct, but interrelated ways. On the one hand, Marxist ...

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition.

For them, crucifixion was the ultimate bad news about Jesus. The scandal of death by crucifixion was almost beyond our ...

Charles Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship on the Atlantic Ocean in 1729, yet he became a writer, a composer, a shopkeeper and a respected man of letters in 18th-century London – the first man ...

Rose Wilder Lane, known for her many writings, also has been a favorite of libertarians. In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, ...

The Roman Empire’s massive mining industry polluted Europe’s atmosphere with lead.

In the first movie, he hit on a winning formula that showcased his favorite preoccupations in a decidedly Roman key: decadent ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

A growing legal movement has turned to the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows national courts to take on ...

Catholics will celebrate the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. Christian baptism is rooted in a rich symbolism of water in the ...

Sadly, we begin this year as the world finds itself rent by numerous conflicts, large and small, more or less known,...(Fonte ...

In his annual speech to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Francis condemned what he said was a universal ...