The man was Emperor Charles V. Now aged 55 ... Charles rearranged Low Country institutions as he pried the Habsburg Netherlands out of the Holy Roman Empire – the very same organisation he formally ...

The scholars say military service became truly acceptable in the Church only after the Emperor ... He is St. Maximilian, a Christian who lived in Thavaste, an outpost of the Roman Empire in ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

This episode explores how Roman rulers transitioned from political leaders to divine figures worshipped across the empire. While earlier episodes focused on Roman and Greek religious roots, we now ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

“Catholicism outlived the Roman Empire. We’ll outlive the American Empire too.” So a Jesuit priest once told me at a pub in New York during my time as an O’Hare fellow at America.

When the How Often Do You Think About the Roman Empire? meme went viral in 2023, it may have felt like a passing joke — until it became clear that people really do think about it all the time.