Parashat Toldot: The struggle between Rome and Jerusalem

Twenty years of barren waiting come to an end at the beginning of our parasha, Toldot, when God responds to Isaac’s prayers, ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Herod the Great’ Review: Rome’s Man in Jerusalem

Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out his ...
The Durango Herald

Roman theater uncovered at base of Jerusalem’s Western Wall

JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists earlier this month announced the discovery of the first known Roman-era theater in Jerusalem’s Old City, a unique structure around 1,800 years old that abuts the ...
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Jerusalem aqueduct tunnel surpassed Rome’s in length, study reveals

A recently published study has revealed that ancient Jerusalem’s water infrastructure included a tunnel longer than any known from the Roman Empire. The finding appears in the June 2025 issue of the ...
National Catholic Register

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Takes Possession of Rome Titular Church After Delays Due to War

‘We are going through the most difficult moments in our history,’ Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said at the May 1 Mass. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took ...
America Magazine

With a new cardinal, Jerusalem (finally) finds its place at the heart of the Catholic Church

Perhaps because the large, white outdoor papal throne was already in place for Saturday night’s ecumenical prayer vigil on Sept. 30, just ahead of the opening of the Synod on Synodality, or because as ...
Time

Religion: Jerusalem, Then Rome

As the procession of churchmen wound slowly through Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, the elderly, bespectacled Anglican prelate stopped before the Roman Catholic altar, knelt and murmured a brief ...