One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

Praying at the tombs and places of martyrdom of the saints and martyrs of the early Church throughout Rome truly ‘brings us into a real, living, breathing relationship with the Church through her ...

Italian archaeologists recently made a surprising religious discovery in an unusual location: an Ancient Roman bath complex. The Appian Way Regional Park, an urban park in Rome, announced the ...

(The Conversation) — Saints are recognized for exceptional virtue and faith. But some also are commemorated for their scholarship. In early centuries, Christians executed in the Roman Empire for ...

Augustine was highly conscious of that African background, and he describes contemporaries in terms of “we Africans.” In ...