Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the walk to Canossa, the birth of George Beverly Shea, and the ...

Gregory VII rendered much subsequent tinkering with the church-state line to be just that -- mere tinkering by comparison. He not only excommunicated King Henry IV at the Lenten Synod of 1076 (the ...

Some 947 years ago, the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV, saw it fit to apologize to Pope Gregory VII for “church-state conflicts.” To fully and unequivocally demonstrate his penance, Henry stood barefoot ...