Historically, few institutions have more staunchly opposed the legalization of gay marriage than the Catholic Church. Even Pope Francis, one of the most vocal Catholic leaders to advocate for treating ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a ...

moving one writer to call the museum “a Sistine Chapel of evolution.” So why on earth go to the Peabody for any reason other than dinosaurs? One answer: for the fossil mammal and bird ...

Millions of tourists flock to Rome’s Spanish Steps each year, but few realize that at the top of the steps is a hidden chapel with a special connection to St. Thérèse of Lisieux. In 1887 ...

Notice how the two options turn on the question of creation itself, whether one is disposed to receive it as a gift, the sheer gratuitousness of which moving one to give thanks, or as an arbitrary ...

Scientists believe they may have finally cracked the age-old question of whether Adam and Eve, as depicted in the Bible, truly existed.