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

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 ...

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

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

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 ...