Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, saying his service to the poor and the church had propelled him to the papacy.

Empress Catherine the Great herself was unable to restore ... Plague of Justinian (541-542 AD) Plague of Justinian, where in the Byzantine Empire this happened under Emperor Justinian I, was ...

What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler is a Martin Luther King Professor of Law at UC Davis and leading expert on U.S. abortion history. She joins Insight to discuss her new book ...

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Some California state workers have spent decades banking unused vacation time. And when they retire, those hours can turn into six-figure or even seven-figure payouts. A new Los Angeles Times ...

It was a refined European civilisation with roots in the Byzantine empire and its Orthodox ... This included Crimea, annexed to Russia by Catherine the Great in 1783. She oversaw the final ...

White Lotus star Sarah Catherine Hook looked elegant in a black satin dress as she joined chic Margaret Qualley and Lupita Nyong'o for the event. The actress, 30, wowed in the sophisticated ...

The borders of the empire stretched from what is today the ... “They did not want modern-thinking people in the court, and this was the great problem.” Lindinger puts it simply: Elisabeth ...

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They provide us with a truly spectacular and captivating visual journey through the fascinating and inspiring history of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest mosaic that we can see in the Cathedral of ...