As he enters his 13th year as pope, Francis stands tall as the moral authority in today’s world, a voice pleading for ...

Pope Innocent III banned the clergy from wearing them in 1215 – a decree no one seems to have paid attention to, as Pope ...

As a tourist, the only reasonable response to Venice’s all-consuming beauty is to gasp in admiration after rounding every corner. As an economist, another response occurs: once upon a time, this ...

On the other hand (for the whole subject is very confused, owing, no doubt, to there never having been any uniformity of discipline regarding it in the western Church), we find Pope Innocent III ...

Innocent III used the wooden chair for his consecration on Feb. 22, 1198. In the 17th century, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Bernini to create an elaborate reliquary to house the chair.

Moreover, he asked for, and received, direct papal support in this. Pope Innocent III wrote from Rome to support John and stated that Magna Carta was ‘not only shameful and demeaning ...

Today in History for March 29: ...

As of Tuesday night Rome time, the pope was still in critical ... Charged and incarcerated, but innocent until proven guilty: Robert E. Crimo III watches the jury selection process during the ...

Now we usually think of slavery in terms of innocent people who were unjustly ... Even though far from being a saint, Pope Paul III in 1537 issued a Bull against slavery, entitled Sublimis Deus ...

You can hate the death penalty and at the same time acknowledge its divine justice in the divine order of a God whose ...