Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jean-Simon Berthelemy's 1773 painting 'Death of a Gladiator.' Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images The release of Ridley ...

[Editor’s note: This is the second piece in a two-part essay by Charles Mercier. Part one is available here.] If Brent Shaw convinces us to be skeptical that emperor Nero instituted Roman persecution ...

Admittedly the Roman Martyrology doesn’t hold the same pride of place on most Catholics’ home bookshelves as other hagiographical tomes. More popular (read: “shorter”) books such as the one-volume ...

Pope Francis and Synod on Synodality participants, including non-Catholic delegates, prayed together Friday evening at the site of the first Christian martyrdoms in Rome. The ecumenical prayer vigil ...

Photo by Pawel Rakowski, S.J. This is the second article in a seven-part series Lenten series on the station churches of Rome. Read Part I here. The first days of Lent have a decidedly martial ...

Christians are under persecution worldwide and face discrimination in the West that could turn in to more violent opposition, according to the author of a new book on martyrdom. "For 2000 years, ...

ROME (RNS) Ancient frescoes have been rediscovered inside the 1,600-year-old Domitilla catacombs after Italian art experts used laser technology to remove centuries of grit and grime. The catacombs, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cavan W. Concannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE ...

Ancient frescoes have been rediscovered inside the 1,600-year-old Domitilla catacombs after Italian art experts used laser technology to remove centuries of grit and grime. The catacombs, or ...

With the release of Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II," audiences will be plunged back into the cinematic excitement of the Roman amphitheater so vividly captured in its predecessor, "Gladiator." Scott's ...