L’habit ne fait pas le moine - roughly pronounced lah-bee nuh fay pah luh mwan - does not have to do with your day to day ...

The fear surrounding these felines stretches back centuries, notably with assertions like that from Pope Gregory IX in 1233 AD proclaiming them as devilish incarnates. While countries such as ...

As Halloween is approaching, black cats around Herefordshire are in for a spooky season. On Friday 13, we asked our readers to send photos of ...

They got a rep for spreading plague (they were eating the infected rats) and hatred of them got a boost from Pope Gregory IX's official church document "Vox in Rama." It was an official call ...

Only people with a high IQ can spot the number '6' in 10 secondsIn honor of Halloween, a new brainteaser challenges people to ...

Black cats are often shrouded in superstition, with many cultures deeming them symbols of bad luck or even associating them with witchcraft and the occult. The stigma dates back centuries, with ...

The pope could wake up tomorrow and allow priests ... great reforming popes like Leo IX and Gregory VII insisted that henceforth the priesthood would be celibate. This decision greatly ...

The association between black cats and witches, death and bad luck stretch back to the 13th century when Pope Gregory IX supposedly proclaimed black cats to be workers of the devil. As medieval witch ...

People who may see a black cat may avoid the path the cat has taken because they want to lower the chances of attaining bad ...

Congregation Torat Emet will host Rabbi Jeremy Wieder for his class, “Between Jew and Gentile: The Disputation in Paris and ...

Highlights include three large fragments from the 13th century decretals of Pope Gregory IX, created to organize and clarify the laws of the Roman Catholic Church. They hold what Leith calls the ...