Ahead of its reopening, here are five highlights from the Frick Collection, including the relocated Boucher Room and its ...

A frail Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after a five-week hospitalization for life-threatening double pneumonia, and ...

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers and artisans as much as among nuns and monks. They were getting crosses, ...

— Gibbs Gardens in Ball Ground, Georgia, about two hours from Chattanooga, is must-see if you have time for a day trip. The ...

The Vatican Museums are one of Rome's top sights-on par with the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ... from the 1700s off one of the ...

Lupercalia was too wild for Pope Gelasius I ... exchanging Valentine's took off in the 1700s, a period coinciding with Romanticism in literature and art across Europe and America.

“The long history of the Pantheon in the Middle Ages is inextricably bound up with the decision made during the pontificate of Boniface IV to transform the ancient building into a Christian church,” ...

You can hate the death penalty and at the same time acknowledge its divine justice in the divine order of a God whose ...

Some scholars believe the origins of forty days of Lent was developed around the same time as the First Council of Nicaea in 325A.D. exactly 1700 years ago ... It may be compared to kintsugi, the ...

There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to ...