The death of Pope Francis is being mourned across the world as the College of Cardinals and the Camerlengo prepare for unique ...

Oxford academics drank from an enslaved woman’s human skull for decades, a new book reveals, revealing the pervasive legacy ...

Even the moment of the formal verification of the pope’s death takes place in the context of a prayer service “at home” in ...

Our lives are redolent with rituals, from personal to promulgated, from silly to serious, from religious to civic and secular. In The Politics of Ritual, Molly Farneth casts a determined eye on the ...