For millions of Catholics around the world, going to the Vatican is a spiritual experience unlike any other. However, for ...

Pantomime pageantry and Satanic provocation is all well and good, but there’s deeper, more subversive purpose in Ghost’s ...

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Broken glasses, watches, combs and crumpled, faded identification documents. They were among ...

This article appears in the August 2025 print edition with the headline “Damn You All to Hell!” When you buy a book using a ...

Ah, the Steam Summer Sale – that glorious, wallet-endangering time of year when Valve transforms into the gaming equivalent ...

The former White House communications director has parlayed his disastrous White House foray into a role as one of Trump’s ...

The Act, innocuously titled ‘The Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich’, was passed by Reichstag (German ...

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93. Schifrin’s son Ryan ...

The National Museum of Funeral History houses the country’s largest collection of funeral service artifacts and memorabilia, offering a surprisingly upbeat look at how we’ve commemorated our dearly ...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ways ...

This year the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the horrors of World War II. Eight decades later, “Hold Strong,” a work of ...

After Vatican II, however, the chasm between heaven and hell receded from both academic theology and the popular imagination. The post-Vatican II worldview did not so much bridge the chasm as ...