The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar’s assassination 2,069 years ago today. Yet the republic’s ruin still influences how we ...

On April 8, 52 BCE, Cicero rose to give a speech in the Roman Forum defending Titus Annius Milo, a prominent politician accused of murdering his political rival, Publius Clodius Pulcher. I have turned ...

Mayor Eric Adams has left New York for the “Eternal City” of Rome. Adams left Thursday to meet the pope in Italy and attend the World Meeting on Human Fraternity, where he discussed with world leaders ...

Francis Ford Coppola got political while discussing his new film Megalopolis on Monday, suggesting that the upcoming presidential election may mirror the downfall of Rome. At a conversation as part of ...

ROME (CNS) — Rome is unique and has a vocation as a universal city, Pope Francis said. Rome has “a universal spirit” that aims to be at the service of charity, hospitality and welcome, he told the ...

In impromptu remarks delivered following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy called on Americans to “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of ...