A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

Mourners will bid a final farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday during his funeral Mass, which is expected to draw ...

As Tomie dePaola’s classic approaches a milestone birthday, Big Anthony is long overdue for a bit of sympathy.

In our secular age, most of us scoff at the supernatural. Consequently, it is difficult to put ourselves in the mindsets of ...

As a scholar of historical memory, I have observed that references to the Russian Middle Ages are part of the Kremlin’s broader politics of using the medieval ... group’s name evokes the ...

The barbaric Pahalgam massacre brings this unsung history to mind in response. The Battle of Karbala took place on the tenth ...

Francis never changed church doctrine on homosexuality or budged on the question of marriage. But he offered a revolutionary ...

This thrown together spoof of King Arthur would become, in 2005, the basis for an $11 million Broadway musical, "Spamalot." ...

For centuries, women have quietly shaped history—crafting first-of-their-kind novels, leading political revolutions, p ...

From the beginning of his papacy in 2013, Francis won over many around the world, Catholic or not, with his advocacy for ...

Now everything must change. That kind of knowledge production has, in effect, been automated. As a result, the “scientistic” ...