Pope Pius IV appointed a spy ­master, Antonio Ghislieri, who would become known as the “shadow Pope”, to build up an intelligence network to combat the Church’s enemies including England.

An early 20th century electric shock machine, a rare Oriental opium pipe and gold sovereign coins worth in total an estimated close to £30,000 are among items from the bishop’s house in Newry going ...

one can search in vain through the interventions of the Holy See - those of Pius V, Urban VIII and Benedict ... island and enslave its people. Pope Eugene IV in 1435 wrote to Bishop Ferdinand ...

Fries, “Wandel des Kirchenbildes und dogmengeschichtliche Entfaltung,” in Mysterium Salutis IV/1, Grundriß heilsgeschichtlicher ... Möhler, Lettre à la Comtesse Stohlberg (1834). [57] Pope Pius XII, ...

To many people, concerned only with its fundamental thesis, Humanae Vitae seemed to be a pure and simple repetition of the traditional doctrine of the Church. Its original nuances escaped them.

On February 11, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the holy martyr Vlasius, Bishop of Sebastia, the blessed Prince ...

A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has ...

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...

Pope Pius XI’s Holy Year of 1925 ... allo stesso tempo tappe spirituali e occasioni di mecenatismo artistico e architettonico: Papi come Sisto IV e Giulio II trasformarono Roma in un simbolo della ...