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 ...

What they had in common was that their ideas were seen as wrong, a threat to the unity of Christian Europe. They therefore had to be snuffed out. This was in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.

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.

Complex debates are ongoing over the role of women and L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics in the church, whether priests should be able to marry, accountability for sexual abuse by priests and other divisive ...

Even for a Roman Catholic Church rife with esoteric terminology that often defies comprehension by the uninitiated, this month’s Synod on Synodality at the Vatican — essentially a major ...