The Catholic Church has put many people on trial, including Galileo, Joan of Arc, and Martin Luther. But the strangest trial in church history took place in the ninth century. Known as the Cadaver ...

And, when you think about it, the starting point of the whole story was something humble in the extreme, featuring the unlikeliest of gods-to-be: a pariah and a criminal executed by crucifixion, the ...

Nevertheless, the impact of the church is reflected in the fact that in the past 50 years, Catholic support for capital punishment fell more than it did among evangelicals, mainline Protestants ...

Austin Sarat: How the Catholic Church helped change the conversation about capital punishment in the United States ...