The recently restored Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome features ten angels holding symbols of Christ's Passion, creating a profound ...

Pope Francis, still recovering from double pneumonia, did not attend an annual procession on Friday at Rome's Colosseum with ...

When tariffs were used in Ancient Rome, they often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems, Peter ...

Jacob Derry, a Pontifical North American College student and seminarian for the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, helped organize ...

From Rome to Barbarians, these shows about Ancient Rome will transport viewers to a fascinating time in history.

In the Middle Ages, the Roman Church replaced this idea of debt cancellation with the concept of plenary indulgence—an ...

In fact, Rome is enjoying a new age of archaeology—the third in the city’s modern history. The first occurred in the 1870s when Rome became the capital of a newly unified Italy and King Victor ...

Rome fades.” Paul Bennett lived in Italy for five years and has lectured widely on Roman history, archaeology and landscape design. The banquet hall at Villa Tiberio was once graced with marble ...

Washing feet, with its deep spiritual symbolism, is one of several ways Catholics in Rome are welcoming the many pilgrims ...

Born Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, we don’t know a lot about the artist’s early life, but his work – which was mostly produced in Rome and is characterised by intense realism and the use of ...

The Everyman Theatre in Cork is staging a major revival of Making History, Brian Friel's celebrated play about resistance, ...