One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church. All classes and ranks of people, whether that be nobles, peasants or tradesmen, were profoundly affected by ...

Her original approach to the complementarity of men and women is distilled in her numerous historical works on the Middle Ages and her monographs on the great saints of Western history ...

Elizabeth Rosenthal's column in the July 1 New York Times stated, "Scientists who engage in stem cell research using human embryos should be subject to excommunication from the Roman Catholic ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered a striking analogy: The medieval church, he wrote in 1970, was “a ...

The Middle Ages have a very bad reputation. ... He says the Roman Catholic Church has "stigmatised different forms of sexual identity and sexual practices" since the 11th or 12th century.

For years now, Pope Francis’ governance of the Roman Catholic Church has been seemingly designed to drive the church’s conservative and liberal wings ever further apart. Thus the persistent ...