Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 ...

Before their marriage in 1533, Henry VIII’s controversial romance with Anne Boleyn was fueled by intimate love letters. Only the correspondence from Henry VIII’s perspective exists today and ...

Pope Eugene IV in 1435 wrote to Bishop Ferdinand of ... It is interesting to note that even though he retracted his Brief, Popes Gregory XIV, Urban VIII and Benedict XIV still recognized and ...

The idea that priests would function better outside of marriage goes back to the 11th century and Pope Gregory VII, who faced issues of exceptional corruption and debauchery among the clergy. His ...