In medieval Europe, proving one’s innocence often meant enduring painful trials—walking across burning plowshares, retrieving ...

Medieval phantoms were commonly referred to as revenants. There are reports of spectres floating through walls, like a ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The full truth, though, is more complicated. Medieval women were there all along, even in priests’ own houses. In her book “The Manly Priest,” historian ...

(THE CONVERSATION) I’m a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three ... in liturgical functions in the great basilicas of Rome. They could be priests, deacons or bishops.

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One legend tells of Saint Valentine, a Roman priest who secretly performed weddings to defy Emperor Claudius II’s ban on marriages for young men. For this, he was arrested and executed.

Poor priests were closer to their parishioners who were angry ... of how dangerous an intelligent and confident woman could be to the magical thinking of the medieval establishment, mocking the ideal ...

Father Jihad Youssef, carrying a picture of Italian Jesuit priest Paolo Dall'Ogli — LOUAI BESHARA In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest ...

Hamas accused Israel of disrupting the humanitarian protocol in the agreement. Residents of northern Gaza and southern Lebanon are returning to their homes, with most of the fighting in both areas ...

Bishop Felix Genn speaks at a press conference on the study presented on dealing with sexual abuse in the diocese of Muenster. The Catholic Diocese of Münster in western Germany will become the ...

Jacob Kasselia lost a member of his congregation in the attack. "He was simply a good man," the priest said. In the middle of a grand, high-ceilinged church in Orebro, Sweden, Jacob Kasselia ...