Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

It was thought that disabled people were looked down upon in the Middle Ages, but a new discovery disputes that belief.

A city recently announced the discovery of a gilded Christian artifact dating back to the Early Middle Ages. In a statement ... of office for an important church leader or official and was ...

The City of Leeds in the U.K. recently revealed a Saxon treasure: a gilded pendant from Northumbria's Christian past, ...

The election process in the early Middle Ages was quite transparent and collegial ... fact that the pope was head of the very powerful church and also a significant secular lord who ruled the ...

Many know the years before the Renaissance and Enlightenment that followed as Europe’s “Dark Ages,” a ... people absent from Middle Age societies. Though the Catholic Church taught that ...

It’s a tradition dating back to the early Middle Ages. This name is not required ... intense historical significance in the Catholic Church, having been chosen by 13 previous popes before ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.