The Gregorian calendar, followed across most of the parts of world today, was introduced more than 400 years ago by Pope ...

Here are some facts about conclaves past, derived from historical studies including Miles Pattenden's “Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700,” and interviews with experts including Elena ...

ROME (WHTM) — By the 1500s the Catholic Church was suffering a crisis of bad timing, dating from well back before the beginning of Christianity. When Rome was founded back on April 21, 753 B.C.E.