While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

It’s refreshing to see how a god or goddess can be made into the image of the human artists, and transgendered by devotion ...

Despite initial impressions, ancient Greek temples were not built to impress 21st-century tourists; they were made to house ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good ...

One Mary, a myriad titles According to the Gospel, Mary is the mother of Jesus — and the mystery of the incarnation of the son of God through her is central to Christian dogma.

Samos, a legendary Greek island steeped in beauty, is found in the eastern Aegean Sea off the coast of Asia Minor (Asian ...

For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In politics, business and war, she embodied ...

We take a trip to Antonín Dvořák’s birthplace, the composer summer hideaway Vysoká, and other spectacular cultural ...

Due to deliberate misrepresentation of facts and false information, White people had deceived many ignorant and learned people as well in the world that they had originated every good thing that ...

From what I know about her, Guanyin is a-OK with my skeptical ways. I don’t believe in Greek, Egyptian or Hindu goddesses either, but I do appreciate the idea of a feminine divine archetype that ...

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) applauded incoming Pope Leo XIV on his commitment to ...

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not ...