For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

The Pope was the head of the Catholic Church and lived in Rome. He set out rules and guidelines that would be put into action by church leaders and personnel across Europe. An example of such a ...

The centre of Wittenberg has been transformed to recreate the medieval ... from the Roman Catholic Church later in the 16th Century As the Reformation spread through Europe, it was marked by ...

A former president of Ireland has criticised the Catholic Church as "an empire of misogyny". Mary McAleese was speaking in Rome ahead of the Voices of Faith conference, which features prominent ...

An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought ... from the exclusive grasp of the Catholic Church, education filtered down to the upwardly ...

Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Sunday to guard against spiritual groups that stoke political divisions, speaking ...