PHOTO COLLECTION: Ash Wednesday
A devotee with an ash cross on her forehead prays during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the Redemptorist Church in ...
The Boston Pilot6d
Vatican decree on 19th-century doctor's canonization leaves Venezuelans rejoicing
Venezuelan Catholics attended cheerful Masses and held processions on Feb. 26, the day after Pope Francis approved the canonization of Blessed José Gregorio Hernández, a 19th-c ...
The Marietta Times8d
Protecting nature: UN talks end with nations backing a $200B/year plan
(AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File) BOGOTA, Colombia (AP ... As the meeting concluded late Thursday in Rome, participants stood up ...
PBS11d
Talks to protect Earth’s biodiversity resume in Rome with money topping the agenda
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its ...
National Catholic Register16d
Jubilee Pilgrims, Rome’s Catholics Pray for Pope Francis
Local Catholics and jubilee pilgrims in Rome are praying for Pope Francis’ recovery as he marks one week in the hospital for treatment for pneumonia. Pilgrim groups and individuals from around ...
National Geographic news16d
This is what a surgical clinic looked like in ancient Rome
(8 things people get wrong about ancient Rome.) A reconstruction of the consulting room of the Surgeon’s House at the Museum of Rimini shows furniture that typically adorned such a house in the ...
Miami Herald18d
Odd burials suggest distant travelers met their end on France barrier island. See them
Here are three of our most recent eye-catching archaeology stories. →Bright blue chunk found in Rome turns out to be rare 2,000-year-old material. See it →Metal detectorist unearths ancient ...