New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...

Pope Francis became the church’s 266th in 2013 when the papal conclave elected him after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

April 22, Earth Day is celebrated once again as over one billion people help the Earth recover from the ravages of ...