Zenit: Just before the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, well-known German historian Michael Hesemann announced the discovery of 2000 pages of hitherto unpublished documents on, what he calls “the greatest persecution of Christians in history” in the … Continue reading
Category: History
Heretics and Holy Confessors: the Conclave of 1549, Battles Among the Cardinals
Roberto di Mattei: Rorate Caeli: The Conclave that opened on November 30th 1549, after the death of Paul III, was certainly one of the most dramatic in the history of the Church. The English Cardinal, Reginald Pole (1500 – 1558) … Continue reading
Evangelical Leader Refutes Obama on Crusades and Inquisition
Steve Skojec, 1 Peter 5: In all my years as a Catholic, I can’t say that I’ve ever seen an evangelical protestant come to the defense of the Crusades or the Inquisition. But President Obama is, if nothing else, a … Continue reading
New Book in Defense of the Crusades
After having read the first chapter of The Glory of the Crusades by Steve Weidenkopf, which is available as a sample, I am confident that this is a very good and accurate history. I was astonished to read that Father … Continue reading
Battle of Tours 732: Je Suis Charles Martel
Donald McClarey, The American Catholic: Charles Martel, “The Hammer”, led a life of conflict. An illegitimate son of Pepin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace and the true power behind the Merovingian puppet kings, after the death of his father … Continue reading
Bl. Junipero Serra: The Real Man, Anti-Catholic Propaganda to the Contrary
I have just read a misinformation post (mostly misinformation or at best one-sided exaggeration) about a holy Franciscan missionary by not one, not two, but three contributors: Joe Mozingo, Matt Hamilton, and Jeff Gottlieb from the Los Angeles Times. Astounding, but hardly surprising, given the secular climate we … Continue reading
An Indomitable Woman: Margaret Haughery, The Breadwoman of New Orleans
When one thinks of New Orleans and its people, the common belief is that New Orleanians are primarily of French extraction. Although the Mediterranean influence in the city since its founding and early history — both France and Spain flew … Continue reading
Catholic Film Lauds Heroes and Martyrs of the War of the Vendée
Regina Magazine: “A friend suggested ‘Why don’t you do the War of the Vendée?’ Jim Morlino recounts. “And I said, ‘The what?’ I’d never heard the word; I had no idea what he was talking about. That was a period … Continue reading
Last ‘Witch’ Hung on Boston Common a Catholic Martyr
The plaque on her grave site reads: “Not far from here on 16 November 1688, Goodwife Ann Glover an elderly Irish widow, was hanged as a witch because she had refused to renounce her Catholic faith. Having been deported from … Continue reading
Hilaire Belloc on the Castle Called “Gaillard”: A Strategic Node
In discussions of strategic geography still today, we often hear mention made of the word “node,” but we may not adequately know what that important concept means, nor what the concrete reality further and variously implies. Nor why the concept … Continue reading
From the House of Hesse, Martyr Princess Elizabeth
K.V. Turley of Crisis Magazine: Described at the time as the most beautiful woman in Europe, this is the story of a princess who was to know both public adulation and private sorrow before spending her last days in the … Continue reading
The Thousands of Irish Slaves Under the British
Irish Central: The history of the African slave trade into the Americas is well-documented as well as largely taught in American schools today. However, as John Martin of the Montreal-based Center for Research and Globalization points out in his article … Continue reading
Why Does (Did) the Roman Catholic Church Make Latin Her Language?
Chris Jackson of The Remnant has provided another excellent article on the reasons why the Church adopted the Latin language in her liturgy, decrees, and official communications. The article was written in 1919 by Father John Francis Sullivan and it … Continue reading
Doing God’s Will
In his most important book, Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism, the great Spanish Catholic diplomat, statesman and political thinker Juan Donoso Cortes (1809-53), often called “the Spanish de Maistre,” wrote: “Governments seem to be endowed with an unerring instinct which teaches … Continue reading
The Globe’s Kevin Cullen Defines Once Catholic Ireland as “Backward”
In a metro column of The Boston Sunday Globe of August 24th, serial Catholic basher Kevin Cullen wrote about the controversy in Ireland over the discovery of unmarked graves of children at the site of a maternity home in Tuam … Continue reading