He took the name Gregory in honor of the Benedictine Pope Gregory VII. Gregory XVI would, incidentally, be the last pope to have been a monk, and the last not to have been a bishop. As you might ...

Inside the castle, as freezing winds blew, Pope Gregory VII took refuge. Gregory never wanted to be pope, and he certainly never wanted to spend his waning years running around Europe, attempting ...

In 1074, Pope Gregory VII proposed leading fifty thousand volunteers to help the Christians in the East and possibly liberate the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Finally, in 1095, in response to ...

to Pope Gregory VII (the predecessor of Urban II who first suggested a Crusade to the East). A great many inhabitants of the Crusader kingdoms were ultimately martyred for their faith, as the ...

This question came to a head when King Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII disagreed on who should be Archbishop of Milan. The ...

Ancient spiritual trails and a vibrant pilgrim tradition in Ireland where all major routes long predate the Spanish Camino ...

Pope Francis gave a solemn blessing with the ... Mary Major along the Via Merulana following the historic route Pope Gregory XIII created for religious processions between the two basilicas ...

The theologian Romano Guardini described praying the rosary as "participation in the life of Mary, whose focus was Christ." Pope Leo XIII also viewed the rosary as a vital means to participate in the ...

Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a ...

Later, Pope Gregory IX instituted the papal inquisition ... Napoleon's defeat in 1814 during the Peninsula War by Ferdinand VII to reinstate the Inquisition failed. It is Napoleon's elder brother ...

Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar term about gays to reaffirm the Catholic Church's ban on gay priests. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a statement ...

following the historic route Pope Gregory XIII created for religious processions between the two basilicas during the Jubilee of 1575. Cardinals, bishops, priests, religious sisters and families ...