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The public got a moving first look at Pope Leo XIV. Just hours after Cardinal Robert Prevost was named the new head of the ...

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Catholicism did not begin as a “white” faith. Born on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean, it spread through the trading routes and legions of the Roman Empire into Africa, Asia and, only later, what ...

From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...