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.

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

such as an important church leader or official. A city recently announced the discovery of a gilded Christian artifact dating back to the Early Middle Ages. Leeds City Council “The cross is ...

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 ...

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

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 discovery of a 17th-century “foot-ball” pitch in Scotland would relocate the birthplace of the modern game.

It is a precedent that was set in the early Middle Ages and, while there is no doctrinal ... but this was before he became head of the church. Another 500 years would pass before Pope John II ...