This episode explores Pope Urban II’s call to Crusade, setting into motion both the People's Crusade and the more organized Princes' Crusade—events that would reshape medieval Europe and the ...

The papacy is once again big news. The coming conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor is stirring interest worldwide and in ...

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary ... threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the result was ...

A century ago, Pope Leo XIII defended workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution. Will Leo XIV do the same for AI?

The Latin Patriarchy, whose seat is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, was created in 1099 of the common era after the conquests of the First Crusade called by Pope Urban II. In 1096, Crusaders ...

Pope Urban gave a speech in 1098 which launched the First Crusade. He spoke of persecuted Christians living under Islamic rule, imploring the knights of Europe to wrest the Holy Land from the ...

It was then that Pope Gregory IX called the crusade, with the usual advantages for those who ... and Königsberg (now Malbork and Kaliningrad), characterized by rectangular urban layouts and solid ...

Among the cardinal electors, the division was between the French Angevin cardinals—mostly appointed by Pope Urban IV (whose papacy ... Louis IX of France in his crusade in Tunisia, where he ...