Italian archaeologists recently made a surprising religious discovery in an unusual location: an Ancient Roman bath complex ... find while excavating a Catholic church on its premises: the ...

All Roman Catholics ... splits, first in 1054 with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, was the first Jesuit to lead the church ... The Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint ...

Argentinian-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the Catholic Church's 266th pope and the first ever from Latin America. He took the name Francis after the well-known St. Francis of Assisi ...