From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers and artisans as much as among nuns and monks. They were getting crosses, ...

When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

where he met and befriended St. Gregory of Nazianzus (one of the four great Greek Doctors of the Church). He became the secretary of Pope Damasus, who commissioned the Vulgate from him ...

The new shepherd of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati April 3 tied a story of learning to swim as a boy, "attempting to float but ...

Then there was Gregory the Great, it was during his term that the word ‘pope’ was almost exclusively applied to the Roman bishop and he believed the pope had supreme authority throughout the world.

[St. Gregory the Great, Dial. 4, 39: PL 77, 396; cf. Mt 12:32-36.]" 1472. "To understand this doctrine and practice of the Church, it is necessary to understand that sin has a double consequence.