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 ...

“It means feeling that you are surrounded by mystery, that God can act through matter, that everything is united in Him and that this has meaning… as was the case in the Middle Ages.

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 ...

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

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

“Together, we must try to find out how to be a missionary church, a church that builds ... would have kept in regular contact with the Catholic hierarchy in the part of the world that counts ...

Whoever becomes Pope must be a baptised Catholic ... Church. If you believe the legend of Pope Joan, then yes, there has been a Popess. The story goes that Pope Joan served during the Middle Ages ...

With a patriarchy deeply rooted in tradition, women in the Catholic ... church really remains profoundly hierarchical and male dominated." In the early years of Christianity women were deacons, ...

The extraordinary longevity of the Catholic Church ... grant the Church considerable importance. The existence of the Church enabled the survival of classical learning and literacy from the Roman ...

In the early years of Christianity women were deacons, prophets and leaders of religious communities, and by the middle ages they were influential ... both with deep Catholic faiths but very different ...

(RNS) — Two years ago, Pope Francis denounced what he called “a very strong, organized, reactionary attitude” within the American Catholic church ... of the High Middle Ages.