The Dark Ages is a term generally applied to the early Middle Ages in Western Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

“God our Father, in this Jubilee Year, you have opened to your Church the way of salvation and filled your sons and daughters ...

While the year was marked by profound change, the new pope emphasized his intention to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics in a spirit of continuity with his predecessor.

The expression “nutty as a fruitcake” was coined in 1935 when Southern bakeries added an excess of nuts to their fruitcakes.

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...