Anyone familiar with church history will know that Jesuit Fr. John W. O'Malley is one of the greatest Catholic Church historians of the last century. Currently University Professor in the Theology ...

Among the Christians of late antiquity, rowdiness was next to godliness in credal disputes. It wasn’t just scholars who confronted Arian- and other heretical “isms.” There were monks marching in the ...

Councils and the culture The Archbishop recalled that in its history, the Church has held 21 different ecumenical councils, which are important not just for the Church, but for the whole world. He ...

St. Peter presided at the Council of Jerusalem in the Acts of the Apostles, and the Catholic Church has followed that biblical model ever since. Pope Pius IX (center, seated on throne) convenes the ...