John is the most popular with 23 popes taking this name. The name Gregory has been used by 16 popes and the name Benedict has ...

Austen recounted that the attackers specifically targeted tourists based on their religion. “They asked if we were Muslims, and whoever said no was shot,” he said. He witnessed the attackers shooting ...

The first pope to change his name did so because he was named after a pagan god. Credit: DALL-E / labrujulaverde.com Rome, year 533 AD. The Eternal City, once the capital of the Empire, now under ...

It challenges traditional religious narratives and displays pagan spirituality as a force against both supernatural ... rather than conforming to the expectations of modern organized religion. Sinners ...

Religious freedom will be in the Supreme Court spotlight again on Tuesday as justices debate whether the First Amendment gives parents the right to opt their kids out of reading or listening to books ...

Five minutes later, he exited, with his heart no longer set on becoming a chemist, but convinced God was calling him to be a priest. As he shared multiple times throughout his papacy, he ...

His favorite poet was reputed to have been Hölderlin, the inscrutable mystic for whom the pagan gods were real personages rather than symbols. In his reflections on technology, Francis’s main ...

However, it also led them to believe that a higher power controlled all these aspects. The fact that religion has been a subject of fascination for numerous filmmakers over the decades comes as no ...

That is partially true. Christians preached a message of “God is love,” which tapped into a spiritual need that Rome’s pagan religions could not meet. But they also shrewdly employed two ...

This is Easter , I know. “If there was a pagan worship somewhere in the Middle East where somebody had a coincidence of date and time and season, that does not affect you celebrating your God. Easter ...