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 ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals' historical animated series, we examine the cultural and intellectual legacy of the Byzantine Empire and ask whether it can truly be considered the heir to ...

Empress Catherine the Great herself was unable to restore normalcy after ... Plague of Justinian, where in the Byzantine Empire this happened under Emperor Justinian I, was due to the bacterium ...

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 ...

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 ...

If that doesn’t sound like you, then Netflix has quite a few great horror movies to fill your time with instead. This month, we handpicked a few of the best horror movies on Netflix that fit the ...

The Dnieper River linked the region to the Byzantine Empire ... s emergence as a transcontinental empire. Few leaders in history have reshaped their nations as dramatically as Peter I, later known as ...

This is against our constitution.” Crimea was annexed by Tsarist Russia under Catherine the Great in 1783 and remained under Russian control until it was ceded by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.