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

It was thought that disabled people were looked down upon in the Middle Ages, but a new discovery disputes that belief.

One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church. All classes and ranks of people, ...

Learn how researchers combined modern tech, text, and bones to uncover details about a disabled man’s life in medieval Sweden ...

Scans and radiographs revealed not just the break but its consequences: dense new bone formations, signs of infection, and ...

Fundamentalism is a quintessentially American form of religious expression, but one we associate almost exclusively with ...

These are striking findings that completely reverse the widely held assumption that the church in England and Wales is in ...

Pope Leo XIV has stepped into the position of leader of the Catholic Church at a time when the church in the United States is ...

The discovery of a 17th-century “foot-ball” pitch in Scotland would relocate the birthplace of the modern game.

But it turns out the Dark Ages was anything but ... Nor were queer people absent from Middle Age societies. Though the Catholic Church taught that homosexuality was sinful, attitudes toward ...