Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Liberalism and Catholicism are two of the most important forces shaping the ...

November is National Black Catholic History Month in the United States, a time to honor the history, heritage, and ...

Run out and buy this book.' Mark Massa, S.J., Boisi Center for Religion and American Life, Boston College 'Though thankfully rare today, anti-Catholic prejudice shaped many discussions of public ...

Unique in both scope and subject, it is a significant contribution to the growing field of interdisciplinary studies of Early Modern Catholicism, and will be especially useful in a number of courses ...

These intensified during the 1580s and there were a number of reasons for this. English Catholics had a network of supporters abroad. Many of the missionary priests that arrived in the 1580s came ...

Elizabeth had been shocked by the opposition to her plans by Catholic nobles in the House of Lords. She realised many people were still Catholic, possibly the majority, so she trod carefully in ...

Up early that morning, Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann, pastoral leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Philadelphia, had a mission. He was to travel 50 or so miles north to Allentown to ...