Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

The Council of Nicaea in the year 325 was, arguably, the most theologically significant and influential gathering of ...

AD 203, a young woman named Vibia Perpetua stepped into a Roman arena in Carthage, North Africa. The crowd jeered, wild ...

Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to ...

The earliest Christian community was an underground movement. The first pope, Peter, led from the shadows, not the throne.

The relationship between Christianity and the Roman Empire is one of profound significance, and has shaped the evolution of ...

On April 30, 311 AD, the Roman Emperor Galerius issued what became known as the Edict of Serdica, which made the first formal ...

Cross necklaces have, in a way, become the jewelry of choice most associated with President Donald Trump’s second ...

If we were put in a time machine and transported to first century Rome, freedom would look very different from what we have come to know.

History reminds us that when Christianity is captured by empire, it may flourish in power but withers in spirit.