The Roman Catholic Church in Medieval Europe For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the ...

During the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church became deeply concerned with these kinds of relationships, to the point that it even led to disagreements between kings and popes.

Many conservative Roman Catholic Church leaders disagreed with Pope Francis, who was often a darling of liberals around the world.

Last summer, leaders representing 11 global religions, from eastern faiths including Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and ...

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, a tireless upholder of Catholic tradition and doctrine, has warned that the synod could be used as a “hostile takeover” of the church.

Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 88 Francis captured the imaginations of believers and non-believers alike.

A version of this story appeared in the Dec 7-20, 2012 print issue under the headline: The medieval church’s ideological warfare.

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical sexual abuse is reported adequately, Pope Francis’ commission for child protection said Tuesday, raising concerns about a ...

The latest crop further concentrates his focus on the fringes of the church. East Timor, an island country of 1.3m people, more than 97% of whom are Catholic, is getting its first cardinal.

Pope Francis was the first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a millennium. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Italian immigrants.