SM: I’ve always thought it’s not spectacular enough. I’m like, “No Roman crowd would have been satisfied with this!” They were sophisticated. By the time of Commodus, they’d had hundreds of years of ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV declared himself a Roman on Sunday as he completed the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome. The first American pope formally took possession ...

The January 6th crowd was clearly composed of some who wanted ... Prosperous and library-bound Roman civilization—however lamed by cruelty, public executions, slavery—was clearly a better ...

Roman judges could and sometimes did face removal ... lies with Pilate – not the chief priests and the Jewish crowd at Jerusalem. (Nathanael Andrade, Professor of History, Binghamton University ...

Speaking before a crowd, Gualtieri said the city of Rome is ... The pope said: "Today I can say in a special way that I am a Roman, with and for you," as the Vatican news service translated.