It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... This church was "discovered" by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century. After attempts to ...

When 16th century European priests arrived in ... Indian Christians with a tradition of loose communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The man who first converted them, the Indians said, was ...

The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant ... Parliament to pass a series of laws that separated the Church in England from the Catholic Church, and made Henry VIII the head of the Church ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled ... by the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, but he had captured the imagination of many in Catholic Europe. By the mid-16th century, two competing ...

The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant ... A series of laws were passed that separated the Church in England from the Catholic Church. Henry VIII became Head of the Church of England ...