It didn’t even have an official name.But for decades, no secret was as closely guarded as the identities of the sexual ...

The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

As part of the ongoing investigation by law enforcement, Raymond Zwiefelhofer was convicted of 10 counts of possessing child sexual abuse material and was sentenced to 120 years in prison last month.

Relaxing the rules This meant taking a more relaxed approach to ancient Jewish laws about ... Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at ...