This episode explores Pope Urban II’s call to Crusade, setting into motion both the People's Crusade and the more organized Princes' Crusade—events that would reshape medieval Europe and the ...

Before thousands in the French city of Claremont, Pope Urban II delivered a speech protesting that the Muslim Turks were occupying the Holy Land — what today comprises much of the Middle East ...

Pope John Paul II is the subject of a new animated film intended to teach children about the life of the late pontiff. John Paul II: The Friend of All Humanity was unveiled Tuesday at the Vatican.

On November 27, 1095, in the south-central French town of Clermont, 53-year-old Pope Urban II addressed a large gathering of churchmen, knights and lords, and local residents and gave what is ...