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During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church stepped in to care for orphans. The first orphanage in the United States opened in 1729 and was run by the Ursuline sisters in Mississippi. There were ...

the Catholic church no longer has anywhere near the political influence that it possessed in the Middle Ages. Despite this, Christians still comprise around two thirds of America’s population ...

By the Middle Ages, antisemitism in Christian Europe had ... The Crusades (1096–1291) were religious wars initiated by the Catholic Church to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control.

Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also refused to translate the ... them as they do the King James Bible? One action that Catholic Christians pursued to stop this propaganda was to ...

the Catholic pontiff who died Saturday at 95, a decade after shocking the world by becoming the first pope since the Middle Ages to resign. “It is with great sadness that I learned today that ...