Since it was in France, “the Oldest Daughter of the Church,” that the Revolution began in 1789, it should be no surprise that it was in France that the Counter-Revolution began. In the Vendee, Brittany, Normandy, Auvergne, and throughout the … Continue reading
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The Long Defeat: Christendom and Its Defenders, 1789 to the Present. Part 5: Italy
When the French Revolution broke out, the Italian Peninsula was divided among several rulers. Piedmont and Sardinia were the domain of the ancient House of Savoy, as a Kingdom named after the large island. But Sardinia was not the Savoys’ … Continue reading
The Long Defeat: Christendom and Its Defenders, 1789 to the Present. Part 4: The ‘Other’ Empire
Together with Austria, Slovenia, and Czechia, what is now Germany made up the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire, which — as we have seen — was for a long time ruled by the Habsburgs. Unlike their hereditary domains, most … Continue reading
The Long Defeat: Christendom and Its Defenders, 1789 to the Present. Part 3: The Eagle Has Two Heads
As we saw in our last instalment, the House of Habsburg carried on the traditions of the Holy Roman Empire into the 20th century, via the relatively new political construction called Austria-Hungary. Shepherded through the last half of the 19th … Continue reading
The Long Defeat: Christendom and Its Defenders, 1789 to the Present. Part 2: Defenders of Empire
Although we shall look at each Western nation in turn, it is important to remember that from the very beginning of Christendom - which we may date from Christ’s uniting the Davidic Kingship with the nascent Church on the first … Continue reading
The Long Defeat: Christendom and Its Defenders, 1789 to the Present. Part 1: To Begin with
“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains (and in legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses … Continue reading