The 88-year-old pope was addressing a group of Dominican nuns from the Union of St. Catherine of Siena, urging them to detach themselves from tales of hearsay. He specifically called out nuns with ...
In 1533, at the age of 14, Catherine's uncle Pope Clement VII arranged her marriage to the duke of Orléans, second son of the king of France. A year after their marriage, the duke began a long ...