While firmly part of Italy for more than a century, influences from that rich and complicated past can be seen in the ...

Editor’s update (April 21st, 2025): This story has been updated with the news that Pope Francis has died.

The deteriorating health of Pope Francis has led to the worldwide speculation regarding his possible successor.

But moments like this provide an opportunity to look at the long-term consequences of church ... and Catholic countries. Before the Reformation, literacy in England was below 10%, and the Roman ...

Before the Reformation, most people in England were Catholic. Their lives centred around the ideas and beliefs of the Catholic Church. This meant that, for many people, Henry’s break with Rome ...