For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

The critical point was, again the Middle Ages, and there you had an adversarial position between the church and the state ...

But Catholic church leaders falsely identified the elaborately decorated skeletons as saints and martyrs — it's unclear who they actually were — and sent them across parts of Europe for ...

The Pope was the head of the Catholic Church and lived in Rome. He set out rules and guidelines that would be put into action by church leaders and personnel across Europe. An example of such a ...

Carlo Acutis, set to become the Catholic Church 's first millennial saint, is already drawing crowds of pilgrims to Assisi, ...

The Catholic Church is investigating ... and a sweatshirt — lies in a shrine in a church dedicated to a key moment in the life of medieval hometown saint, St. Francis. Acutis’ body was exhumed ...