Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe offers readers a chance to understand better the societal and confessional norms that motivated late medieval and early modern Christians to maintain or ...

A time of innovation, philosophy, and legendary works of art: the realities of the medieval period (500 to 1500 C.E.) in Europe may surprise you. Many know the years before the Renaissance and ...

Santuario di Monte Grisa, Trieste, Italy; Ing. Kramreiter, 1958 [Photo: Jamie McGregor Smith/courtesy Hatje Cantz] Concrete was fashionable, but the Catholic Church’s quest for a new image went ...

In medieval Europe, an era stretching from about A.D. 500 to 1500, fish was a prestigious food. ... a Catholic religious order that used sign language to communicate, ...

The "Catholic world" of medieval Europe was messy and unsystematic-unrecognizable by today's standards and does not offer a clear guide to what consitutes Catholic higher education today.

In Europe this started to change around 500AD, when the Catholic church began banning polygamy and marriages between cousins, or between widows or widowers and their dead spouses’ siblings.

This week, as many as 5,000 Catholic scouts are walking historic pilgrimage routes to Rome that will culminate in a private audience with Pope Francis and a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Aug. 3.

Here are five facts about Catholics in Europe: Europe was once home to most of the world’s Catholics, but that is no longer the case. In 1910, 65% of all Catholics lived on the continent. But a ...

Europe's Catholic Problem. By Ross Douthat. June 21, 2008. Share. ... There is something discomfiting about a selective respect that extends to the Roman Catholic Church, ...