According to the Rev. John Wauck, professor of church communication at the Pontifical Holy Cross University in Rome, Leo’s ...

Originally founded a century ago, the Swiss Catholic Women’s Federation was established to preserve Catholic life in families ...

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 ...

Within the Catholic Church, traditionalists and some canon ... had authority by the late Middle Ages over at least 78 priories—all of them mixed male-and-female communities, with women having ...

The election process in the early Middle Ages was quite transparent and collegial: Early popes were selected by consensus by the Roman deacons ... of the very powerful church and also a ...

Whoever becomes Pope must be a baptised Catholic ... Church. If you believe the legend of Pope Joan, then yes, there has been a Popess. The story goes that Pope Joan served during the Middle Ages ...

The Catholic Church is an institution of remarkable longevity ... The existence of the Church enabled the survival of classical learning and literacy from the Roman period into the Middle Ages, ...

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Their papacies were in the era of the Roman ... to the Church by God, who then delegated earthly power to the state, making the Church ultimately superior. "Later on, in the Middle Ages, popes ...