Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

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Current government campaigns to deport immigrants, expel foreign students, defund scientific funding, and dismantle all ...

In 1204, during the Fourth Crusade, Crusaders diverted from their mission to the Holy Land and instead sacked Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine Empire. Driven by a mix of financial debts, ...

Pope Leo XIV is a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, the oldest monastic order, and as Prior General of the order, he ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Castel Gandolfo's pilgrims, bikers and locals have missed a papal presence in the town.

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 17 volumes : 28 cm An index and supplements were later published by other ...

Today in History for July 7: In 1438, the decrees of Basel were adopted by the Roman Catholic Church. They restricted the authority of the popes and imposed a degree of accountability on the cardinals ...

Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome of Roman history. Cornelius Nepos by Florus, Lucius Annaeus Publication date 1929 Topics Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C, Rome (Empire) Publisher Cambridge, Mass ...

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II established full diplomatic ties.