The history of the Catholic Church so far spans about 2,000 years. That’s a wide swath of history, a vast amount of time, and an organization that covers the entire world. The Church has been at the ...

For 1,700 years, no one knew where the First Council of Nicaea actually took place. The answer may have been sitting in a ...

Church history is a combination of history and theology. We examine Christianity, Christians and churches as well as religious movements and phenomena – the dynamics of the past that continue to shape ...

An attempt to examine the church’s history through its architecture suffers from narrow understandings of “church” and “history” alike. The church is not a building, but it certainly has buildings. My ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally delivered as the keynote address at a Feb. 20-21 conference held at Christendom College on the theme “Eternity in Time: Thinking With the Church Through ...

An open-air Mass in Brazil on May 17, 1888, commemorating the abolition of slavery. (Alamy) It was the morning of May 24, 1888, and a large, ethnically diverse crowd waited in the Sala Ducale of the ...

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The deteriorating health of Pope Francis has led to the worldwide speculation regarding his possible successor. The most mentioned names are a cardinal from Africa and an Asian cardinal, Cardinal ...

My greatest fear is that we will fail to learn from history—specifically, the role the Christian Church has played in fostering antisemitism, up to and including the Holocaust. Religious institutions, ...