Centered on a Persian-inspired deity, Mithraism spread widely across the Roman Empire between the first and fourth centuries CE. Most evidence comes from archaeology, including underground temples ...

The new chairman of the Catholic German Bishops Conference, Heiner Wilmer, is four days older than his predecessor, Georg Bätzing: almost 65 years old. This is not what one would call a generational ...

This video is a preview for the upcoming project "The Holy Roman Empire: Every Year," expected to be completed around March-May 2024. Timeline: 0:00 Late Frankish Empire 1:38 Holy Roman Empire / ...

David McGarry reflects on Cicero’s hierarchy of values and insights about human nature with a view to understanding virtuous ...

Nothing has done the Church more tragic harm, and compromised our witness more, than corruption arisen within our own house” ...

Key Takeaways Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator ...

The Lenten season is a reminder that Christians are called to bear witness to Christ through authentic witness, not ...

Four years into the war, when Russian attacks on the power grid in the middle of a brutal winter have caused suffering for ...

BACOLOD CITY — Four decades after the historic 1986 People Power Revolution, religious and civil society groups in Negros Occidental on Monday, Feb. 23, called on Negrenses to keep its spirit alive by ...

Un sogno italiano (2019), 1 a biographical television film about the industrialist Enrico Piaggio (1905–1965), depicts more than the creation of the Vespa scooter: it functions as a case study of the ...

Cambridge University Professor Josephine Quinn on why the 'West' was a hard-won idea, and why the idea of great civilizations of the world is so attractive and so harmful to the practice of history ...

When the principal sneezes, the whole school catches a cold. This is neither good nor bad; it is just the truth. The ...