Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims slogged for days under a punishing sun through country roads, sandy paths, even a ...

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

It would be a bit inelegant for Orthodox countries to use a Catholic platform to discuss ... The Vatican would beg to differ — since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as ...

Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer. To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the ...

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

One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church ... In the latter part of the Middle Ages, the pope, as head of the church, had a huge influence over ...

barely 15% of priests ordained since 2020 described themselves as even middle of the road, while 85% described themselves as either conservative or very conservative. In the Catholic Church ...

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The religion they idealize predates the Second Vatican Council — in some cases, the urban Catholicism of the early 20th century; in others, the Western Christianity of the High Middle Ages.

the Middle Ages—architecture, sculpture, painting. This period has a deep-rooted culture of symbolism, form, geometry [and] it avoids the temptation of mere decoration.” The Archbishop of ...

Exorcisms performed by the Catholic Church are likely the best ... Christians in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages could exorcize themselves, so to speak, by calling on a saint as an ...