In the Middle Ages, England emerged as one of the most influential and powerful kingdoms in Europe – a far cry from its ...

One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church. All classes and ranks of people, whether that be nobles, peasants or tradesmen, were profoundly affected by the ...

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

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The Church honors Jeanne d’Arc as a virgin martyr and national patroness, whose courage, purity and fortitude continue to ...

The election process in the early Middle Ages was quite transparent and collegial ... Rome was the papal seat, but popes met with kings and ecclesiastical leaders across Europe, and conclaves ...

PHOENIXVILLE — The regular schedule for Pawling Independent Baptist Church, 400 Pawlings Road, Phoenixville, PA 19460, is ...

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 ...

Ages ago, I traveled overland from Europe to Nepal: the Orient Express train from Munich to Istanbul, a boat through the ...

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

The reasoning, like all things artistic in the Middle Ages, has to do with Jesus. Back then, the church commissioned most of the portraits of babies and children. And they didn’t want just any ...

Exorcisms performed by the Catholic Church are likely the best-known exorcisms ... Christians in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages could exorcize themselves, so to speak, by calling ...