The effect of the apostasy in the Catholic Church in the 16th century followed through in the 17th and 18th century. However, by roughly...

At the end of the 15th century, after Christopher Columbus and his mission of exploration to the western hemisphere, the Spanish and the...

One of the beautiful things about the Catholic Reformation was the rich variety of spiritualities that emerged and the rise of the...

The 16th century to the 17th century was a time of the division of western Christianity, known as the Protestant reformation. There...

During the 14th century, a great plague known as the “Black Death” descended upon Europe. It began around 1347 and lasted for over a...

Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) created the most powerful papacy during the 13th century. He not only reformed and centralized church...

The Church’s history from 1050 AD to 1200 AD is a preparation for a great period of creative explosion and finds its culmination in the...

The proof from A.D. 600 – 1050 is often called “the rise of Christendom,” a union of church and state, that was attributed most...

The fifth and sixth centuries were a high point for the monastic movement, particularly by the works of St Patrick and St Benedict, which...

The fourth century is one of the most pivotal of centuries for the Church. Constantine’s conversion to Christianity in 312 AD, which was...

The persecution continued in the second and third centuries and Christianity was still an illegal religion, where there were systematic...

From the beginning of Christianity until about 100 A.D., this was a time of initial growth of Christianity where there was a relative...