Some people think that you have to choose between science and religion, but that is not the case. This is the story ...

The Catholic Church has weathered centuries of crisis, from ancient schisms to modern scandals with each era bringing calls ...

Later monks moved to the mountains in what is today Lebanon. This rite never fell into heresy and was only separated from Rome by the political reality of Moslem or Ottoman occupation. The ...

Americanism became known as "the phantom heresy." This all might have remained ... In 1870, the forces of the Italian state captured Rome and the next year declared it the capital of the newly ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

Today (the Ides of March) reminds us that Caesarism – that form of government in which the supreme ruler is near enough to ...

For approximately 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, Rome is the axis around which the entire cosmos turns. It is often said that the Catholic Church “thinks in centuries,” but when the ...

Pope Francis is the most unconventional bishop of Rome in modern times ... responsible for confronting heresy. He was widely regarded as a titan of theological writing and, as pope, wrote tome ...

One may hold values based on falsehoods, assumptions and heresy but won’t shift if and ... simply means not Jew whether black or white) in Rome, Africa, Asia, America or Europe even try to ...

Communism (and socialism, with which it was too readily conflated) was, for Rome, the great fear ... despite being condemned as a “heresy” — washed back to Europe and fed progressive ...

According to one historian, bookies in Rome in 1584 took bets on whether ... Offences that can result in excommunication today include heresy, violations of the sacraments, and physical violence ...

Newark is a town that can celebrate a rich history and over the centuries many individuals are known for their association ...