Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to evolve.

Clement IX, born Giulio Rospigliosi, is the most recent pope to be buried at St. Mary Major, having been laid to rest there ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and the place Pope ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

In Lower Than the Angels, MacCulloch describes several issues across Protestant and Catholic history ... and she’d become a gay icon. “When we lost everything,” she told Larry King ...

the Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan has remained one of the most recognizable skyscrapers in the world — and a glimmering architectural icon of the Art Deco period, which celebrates its ...

Renaud and her fellow parishioners are remembering the late Pope Francis as a reformer, they say, whose message to the world consistently emphasized inclusivity. "He is a global representation of ...