The Vatican announced this week that its College of Cardinals will convene on May 7 for the conclave process at the famed Sistine Chapel – where they'll elect Pope Francis' successor as leader ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a ...

Hans Küng is a Roman Catholic priest who believes that Protestantism must undertake a second reformation if the Christian church is ever to be made one, but that is by far the lesser half of his ...

But 1534 brought a new pontiff, Pope Paul III, who initiated the Counter-Reformation and convened the Council of Trent. (He also formally approved the creation of the Society of Jesus, another ...

Many Catholic intellectuals (Pope, Dryden, etc.) kept their heads down, understandably then, but less so now; although, in the 20th century, there were quite a number of prominent Catholics in ...

The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...

Editor’s update (April 21st, 2025): This story has been updated with the news that Pope Francis has died. A FTER MONTHS of ill health Pope Francis died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday. Francis ...