Bernard, also known as St. Bernard of Menthon, lived from about 1020–1081 in what are now the countries of France, ...

At the death of Gregory XI in 1378, the cardinals elected Pope Urban VI, but soon regretted it ... who refused to give up power—and the one elected in September 1378, Clement VII. Two popes, two ...

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

Papal elections aren't always as dramatic as "Conclave," a new film starring Ralph Fiennes, but the history behind the process is.

The correspondence of Pope Gregory VII : selected letters from the Registrum / translated with an introduction by Ephraim Emerton.

Archbishop Gregory Aymond celebrates his 75th birthday on Tuesday, Nov. 12, and it could be a pivotal moment for the ...

This man was Pope Gregory X, who knew a good idea when he saw one. He engineered the Council of Lyons II in 1274 to give the church the conclave structure it more or less follows today ...