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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Our faculty member Dr. Amanda Watson, in collaboration with Christine Gervais and Shanisse Kleuskens, has recently published a new book titled Resisting Orders: Catholic Sisters Contest Their Church.

But St Francis Xavier Chapel, which has a strong claim to be the oldest surviving Catholic church in sub-Saharan Africa, faces a new threat today. A three-storey building belonging to a Chinese ...

The death of the good pope Francis focuses attention on the historic procedure by which the Roman church elects its leader ... taking a leaf from the Roman Catholic book. The present Electoral ...

Central among them are questions about the role of women, the exercise of power in the church hierarchy and the move ... said Brother Mark O’Connor, a Catholic journalist who runs communications ...

In 2024, the last Catholic school in Rome ... display every day was a sad indictment of the upper tiers of the church hierarchy. While the world sang his praises for carrying his own luggage ...

He called on the Catholic Church to step up and respond to these challenges with moral clarity and bold action. Speaking at the New Synod Hall, the Pope said the Catholic Church has faced similar ...