During the upcoming Jubilee year, millions of Christian pilgrims will flock to the Eternal City’s innumerable holy places.

It is also possible that they were the same person, however. “He was either a Roman priest and physician who was martyred, or he was the bishop of Terni, Italy, who was also martyred in Rome ...

Notorious alleged abuser Father Marko Rupnik was recently approached by a journalist at a Rome airport who questioned him about accusations he sexually abused over 40 adult women over a span of ...

Newark Advocate faith columnist Jeff Gill explores the history of Valentine's Day and how it connects to today's interpretation of the holiday.

Early Christianity faced numerous challenges, both from external persecution and internal doctrinal disputes. Among the most ...

Ghost unveiled new frontman Papa V Perpetua on Wednesday with the announcement of their new album, Skeletá , and the release ...

To the Christians, however, he was a martyr and it was soon clear that the execution had made Judaea even more unstable. Pontius Pilate – the Roman governor of Judaea and the man who ordered the ...

St. Irene of Rome was the widow of the martyr Saint Castulus, a Roman military officer who was killed for spreading the Christian faith in 286. She lived in the Roman Empire during the reign of ...