Pope Francis appointed a significant number of cardinals from the Global South. Among the 135 cardinals currently eligible to ...

Survivors of church sexual abuse acknowledge Francis took important steps, but say his successor must do more to tackle abusive clergy and hold bishops accountable when they mismanage cases.

VATICAN CITY — Few could have predicted that a comment Pope Francis made during a 2018 visit to Chile would blow up into the ...

More than 200 children were sexually abused by Catholic clergy in southern German cities over past decades, a new independent report revealed on Monday. According to the Catholic Diocese of ...

"I want to record here the importance to respect every element of the European convention of human rights, also the freedom of assembly and the freedom of speech," he said. Turkey is a founding ...

Some commuters in a cosmopolitan European city may be shocked to learn they've been walking over ancient skeletons for many years. Officials in Brussels, Belgium, announced on April 9 that public ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found. It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original ...

History has had it out for the tomato. One of the earliest-known European references to the food was made in 1544 by the Italian herbalist Pietro Andrea Mattioli, who first classified it as a ...

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The abbey, founded in 1115 in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, was home to one of the largest monastic libraries in medieval Europe. Some 1,450 volumes of the abbey’s extensive corpus ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.