VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Disillusioned by their experiences in Catholicism, some Romans are turning to paganism and finding a connection to their roots through worshipping the gods of antiquity, whom they ...

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Site has been sacred ground for nearly 3,000 years, and counting According to legend, Rome was born April 21, 753 B.C., when Romulus, the survivor of its feuding twin founders, hitched his plow and ...

Having fought his way into power, Augustus used religion as a tool to protect his position and promote his political agenda. Having gained power by force in a bitterly fought civil war, Augustus was ...

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Inside the basilica, Pope Pius XII read the Easter homily for the Holy Year: “When men follow Jesus, they know perfect peace even in the midst of affliction, persecution and injustice.” It had been ...

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