Researchers discovered the copy of the 1,300-year-old poem lurking inside a historical text in an Italian library ...

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem, hiding in a medieval book in a Roman library.

The taxpayer-funded event is hosting religious speakers who trashed Pope Leo’s words as “pious blather” and claimed Muslims ...

The pope’s latest symbolic rebuke to the president is appointing a Salvadoran who entered the country as an undocumented ...

John the Baptist appeared to Prophet Joseph Smith and his scribe Oliver Cowdery on May 15, 1829, and restored the Aaronic ...

In this continuing series on the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, the story of New England begins in a region that ...

The Vatican has issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics. It says their planned consecrations ...

In a new study published in the International Journal of Conservation Science by Klaudia Stala, an associate professor and ...

HDS Professor Raúl Zegarra joins The Harvard Religion Beat to explore and analyze Pope Leo's first year as leader of the ...

The Church can sometimes seem fractured. The Catholic Church is a big tent. That is one of its core strengths: the fact that ...

While Galileo's observations killed off the old model, we would need to wait centuries for conclusive evidence that Earth ...

In 1633, Galileo Galilei stood in the convent of the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church in Rome, where a tribunal of Catholic authorities forced him to “abjure, curse, and detest” his belief that the ...