Pope John Paul II made an unprecedented move Sunday when he ... Although not mentioned by name, the apology alluded to persecutions under the Inquisition, violence during the Crusades, forced ...

“Pope” comes from the Greek word for “father ... As a young man, Silvester lived through the persecutions initiated under one of the co-emperors at the time, Diocletian, which began ...

Died 311 A.D. Bishop of Alexandria from 300. A native of Alexandria, Egypt, Peter survived the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian and served as a confessor for the suffering Christians.

The “Liber Pontificalis,” a catalog of papal biographies that began to ... As a young man, Silvester lived through the persecutions initiated under one of the co-emperors at the time ...