Within his gloomy outlook was the death of a 'very old' Pope - as well as stark warning about the weakening of the Catholic Church ... the return on the 17th century plague in the words ...

If the Catholic Church forgets history ... diaconate meet the standards for sacramental ordination decreed by the 16th century Council of Trent. These women are named in literary documents ...

The Byzantine Rite Catholic Church resulted from efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to convert Eastern Orthodox Christians in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 16th and 17th centuries ... U ...

The Catholic church, with an estimation of about 1.4 ... the tradition of celibacy for priests and popes has been traced back to the 16th century when the practice became a criterion to becoming ...