The walk to Canossa – Jan. 25, 1077 This week marks the anniversary of when Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV arrived at the city of Canossa, Italy, having walked there from Germany as an act of penance.

In the year 1085, Pope Gregory VII, an important church reforming figure, was exiled in Salerno, Italy, as a result of disputes with the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. Gregory died that year, and his ...

Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV for the first time. 1349: 900 Jews are burned alive ...

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This week marks the anniversary of when Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV arrived at the city of Canossa, Italy, having walked there from Germany as an act of penance. Pope Gregory VII had required the ...

By Maya Phillips A young prince and an old knight walk into a tavern … So much of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” plays like a setup, either to a joke or to a significant turning point in English ...

Pope Francis is in a “stable” clinical condition and rested well overnight as he continues receiving treatment for bronchitis at a hospital in Rome, the Vatican’s press office said Sunday ...

"The clinical condition is fair," the Vatican said in an update. LONDON and ROME -- Pope Francis was admitted to a hospital on Friday for "necessary tests" and to continue his ongoing bronchitis ...

The Pope is stable in hospital with a slight fever after he was admitted for bronchitis treatment, the Vatican has said. After daily audiences he was taken to Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic ...

Pope Francis was admitted to a hospital on Friday for "necessary tests" and to continue his ongoing bronchitis treatment, the Vatican said. "This morning, at the end of the audiences, Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis weighed in on the true meaning of “ordo amoris” – a theological debate that Vice President JD Vance sparked last month. Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, used the ...