John L. Allen Jr., the fastidious American journalist who demystified Vatican affairs for English speakers for decades, died ...

Allen passed away in Rome Jan. 22, at the age of 61. He is survived by his wife, Elise Ann Allen, Crux's senior Vatican ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

Covering the Vatican, he had a front-row seat to the waning years of Pope John Paul II's pontificate and the election of Pope ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

The structure is the first known evidence of a building attributed to Vitruvius, the author of an architectural treatise that ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...