For Catholics and non-Catholics alike, fascination with the pope and rituals such as the papal conclave continue to transfix and intrigue.

More than a millennium after they were carried abroad for safekeeping, a collection of early Irish monastic manuscripts is returning to Ireland for a landmark exhibition at the National Museum in Dubl ...

Did you know that Easter bonnets date back to medieval Europe when women would dress up in their best, newest clothes as a ...

Some commuters in a cosmopolitan European city may be shocked to learn they've been walking over ancient skeletons for many years. Officials in Brussels, Belgium, announced on April 9 that public ...

A key factor behind this shift is, of course, the presence of Islam in Europe. Its visibility is prompting many young people of Christian heritage to reconsider their own religious identity. This ...

The abbey, founded in 1115 in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, was home to one of the largest monastic libraries in medieval Europe. Some 1,450 volumes of the abbey’s extensive corpus ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

In fact, in early medieval England, around the year 1000 ... earliest surviving vernacular collection of riddles in Western Europe. Compiled around the year 1000, The Exeter Book also includes ...

The Arma Christi is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre in York A rare medieval illuminated ... she was cataloguing the religious order's collection.

“Marco.” “Polo.” These are two words that travellers might expect to hear when lounging at hotel pools as children play the popular water tag game.

Antisemitic attitudes among Christians in Ireland are “disturbing” and “Medieval,” due in large part to entrenched religious beliefs held by the Catholic community, according to a new survey.

An international religious summit has put an Ilminster venue on the map. Monks Yard in Horton Cross hosted the first European Summit of Transform Our World from Thursday, March 13 to Saturday, March ...