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 ...

Pope Leo XIV is being pushed by Western powers to mediate an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It’s a responsibility ...

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To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

But this pattern of behavior has been the standard for the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages. For more than a thousand years, the church has denigrated religious women when they challenged ...

Stigmas that developed in the Middle Ages, which Dr Pattenden is currently researching, are also relevant to today. He says the Roman Catholic Church has "stigmatised different forms of sexual ...

The historic links between Guinness' St. James’s Gate in Dublin and the Catholic pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, in ...