For millennia, every December 25, Christians have celebrated the feast of the birth of Jesus Christ. As the Catechism says (525-526): Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor family. Simple ...
For nearly a thousand years, Rome worshiped its ancient gods. Then everything changed. As Christianity rose to power in the 4th century, what happened to the pagans? Were temples destroyed overnight?
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Disillusioned by their experiences in Catholicism, some Romans are turning to paganism and finding a connection to their roots through worshipping the gods of antiquity, whom they ...