Leap years were first introduced with the Julian calendar in 46 BC by Julius Caesar, who added an extra day to February every four years, based on the work of the astronomer Sosigenes, to account for ...

Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document ...

1868 – The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government. 1868 – ...

Meanwhile, Pope Gregory XII was the oldest to be elected at 81 years old in 1406, with Pope Clement X having come close when elected in 1670 at the age of 79. As for Pope Francis, he was 76 years ...

(RNS) — Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new (June 16) Pontifical Academy of Sciences ...

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole and African ancestry, traced to Louisiana and West Africa, is prompting celebration and curiosity among ...

By Keiko Kurane Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, has stressed the Holy See and Japan ’s joint ...

The four months specifically designated as sacred months are the last four months of Hijrah calendar. They are Ramadan, ...

Not since 1415, when Gregory XII stood down, has a pope surrendered the keys of St Peter. But Gregory’s resignation did not, of course, mark the end of the political centrality of the papacy in ...

YouTuber Kuldeep Singhania has stirred intense online discussion with a series of viral videos. In one of them, he draws an ...

ANOTHER twelve full calendar months have rolled by for the Muslim faithful around the world. Another fifty weeks have passed ...