For example, the 686 election of Pope Conon is described in “The Book of Pontiffs,” a medieval collection ... savage ...

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

This meeting was called at the initiative of the cardinal ... by his absence from a meeting scheduled for last week. “I’m not known in the Church for being a closed-minded medieval, am I?

Ralph Fiennes is superb as the cardinal ... Pope; and Venice’s Cardinal Tedesco (Sergio Castellitto) is even more reactionary and seemingly determined to drag the Church back to the Middle Ages.

Some films are literal in how they portray the human condition while others are metaphorical, but the best films use the ...

This meeting was called at the initiative of the cardinal in response to some members being frustrated by his absence from a ... for being a closed-minded medieval, am I? So you can be sure ...

An illustration from a medieval French manuscript depicts the Polo brothers’ meeting with Kublai Khan. Credit: Bibliothèque ...

The cardinal scheduled the meeting after missing a gathering Oct. 18 intended to inform members of the Synod of Bishops about the study group his office ... it is just a medieval fixation etcetera.” ...

A charged soap opera about the sacred process of papal selection should have never seen the light of day. Here’s how star ...

The fact the Catholic church could stage such a massive consultative exercise and still somehow manage to hold everyone ...

Amid the anguished commemorations of the events of last Oct. 7, Pope Francis ... most Middle Ages or pre-war pogroms. And he only referenced “the people of Gaza” as being in his daily prayers ...