Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

Why the first ever American pope, Pope Leo, broke a major tradition by speaking English at his first mass on Thursday (9 May) ...

Author Laura Spinney weighs in on the linguistic expansion of Indo-European languages thousands of years ago, examining the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, O.S.A., a former prior general of the Augustinians and longtime missionary in Peru, did not enter the conclave as a favorite to succeed Pope Francis. His reputation as a ...

D ante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in Hell. Those who committed milder ...

Translating to “Clear and Fast,” Lin began designing the MingKwai sometime during the 1940s. Instead of trying to overlay ...

The Bible is the subject of countless head-scratching mysteries. For centuries, religious and secular scholars alike have ...