Another potential origin is a New Year’s tradition from the Middle Ages called the “Feast of ... New Year’s Day and lower members of the clergy would swap duties with the higher-ranking ...

Even though only cardinals have been elected for the last 600-plus years to be pope, but according to the Canon law any unmarried, baptized male Catholic, clergy or not, is eligible to be pope.

Another potential origin is a New Year’s tradition from the Middle Ages called the “Feast of ... New Year’s Day and lower members of the clergy would swap duties with the higher-ranking ...

such as giving alms—gifts of money or clothes—to the poor, to reduce the time these souls would have to spend in this interim state. Other developments took place in the later Middle Ages.

“Despite his advancing years and the frailties of age, Pope Francis travelled widely, meeting world leaders, lay people, religious, and members of clergy living in countries ... particularly in the ...

The Catholic Religion preserves a tradition of Priesthood, Monks, and Nuns that date back to the early middle ages and before ... and had formed a close bond with certain members of the clergy in the ...

Going back to the Middle Ages, European art and literature have depicted the Jews ... Time and again, the courts heaped abuse on Jewish men, who ‘in typical Jewish fashion’ tried to exploit Aryan ...

The world of religious attire is changing, and one of the most exciting trends in recent years is the growing popularity of women clergy robes. As female clergy members step into leadership roles ...

In 2018, Pennsylvania became the epicenter of the Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis with the release of a statewide grand jury report detailing decades-old concealment of the systemic abuse of ...

“The Middle Ages” comprises works located between points in time, whether the bounds of the literal Middle Ages, or middle age in an individual sense, or a moment of societal shift from one ...

Fashion may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about papal legacies, but Pope Francis’ understated style ...