The Berea Kiwanis Club recently completed the third year of awarding grants to teachers with the Berea School System and ...

Breastfeeding has been depicted in art throughout the centuries, forming a visual representation of women’s lived experiences concerning religion and societal expectations. Ancient civilizations ...

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

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

The new pope’s homage to Leo XIII invokes Rerum novarum, the Catholic Church’s 1891 encyclical engaging with the social ...

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

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

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 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 ...

It dated back to the Middle Ages. The excavators found ... represents part of the earlier church.” Though the analysis of the human remains is in the early stages, archaeologists have already ...

During the Middle Ages the tradition continued only among the nobility, as most of the peasant classes didn’t have the money for such luxuries. Of course, in medieval times the church kept a ...

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the ... Credit: Vatican Media During the Middle Ages, the popes were solemnly enthroned on the chair. Innocent III used the ...