Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

Explore the world of Roman tombs, from simple stelae to grand mausoleums, revealing how ordinary Romans—soldiers, freedmen, women, and children—were commemorated. Discover the variations in tomb ...

The community prepares meals for retreats, cooking the same foods they themselves consume, following closely to the principles of the doctor of the Church as they offer hospitality to souls.

St. Peter’s Basilica is arguably the most famous Christian worship space in the world. It is a massive church in the style of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent ...

One of the great things about computer games is that anything is possible – except women who fight, apparently.

When Mario Gargiulo traveled to the 1956 Cortina Winter Games, his first trip to northern Italy from his hometown of Naples, the 20-year-old never imagined he'd return to the Olympics. Only able to ...

Let's not pretend that the punishment meted out to the club by the Premier League is anything other than a tiny tap on the wrist of Chelsea's wealth and position among the elite.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls. And ...

St. Patrick's Day is the perfect opportunity for Catholics to deepen our understanding of the Apostle of Ireland.

The best way to learn something is to experience it. Even in relationships, you can read advice or watch romantic movies, thinking they'll teach you what to expect, but it’s not the same as feeling ...

Around that time, I got the idea to read Dante’s The Divine Comedy. It is not about textbook religion. It is a poem, written at the turn of the 13th century and beginning of the 14th, that its author ...

Long ago, when Romans wanted to build a new temple, they would head to the nearby quarries of Tivoli, chisel out blocks of porous rock called lapis tiburtinus — now known as travertine — and float the ...