October 1582 isn’t exactly a year which went down ... reformed calendar – known as the Gregorian calendar in his honour. But what calendar was used before this and why did the church decided ...

The simplest way to explain why Easter falls on a different date each year is this: It falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the spring equinox.

Today is April Fools’ Day, the annual holiday that celebrates pranking, hoaxes, and all manner of horseplay and tomfoolery.

One of the most famous April Fools’ Day pranks took place in 1957, when the BBC aired a program featuring a Swiss family ...

This year is a year full of signs of Christian unity, even in the midst of great divisions and breaches in unity culturally and politically. Although ...

Ah, but every historian knows that all roads — and historical events — lead to Rome. Maybe April Fools’ Day is actually Roman, as they celebrated Hilaria. Besides its top-tier holiday name, you’d get ...

At C&L, April 1st will be now be referred to as Trump Fool's Day. There is much uncertainty about the origins of April Fools' Day.

To correct this, Pope Gregory XIII established the Gregorian calendar system in 1582, which removed Leap Days from most years ending in 00 to reduce the drift. To remove the effect of the drift ...