Core Subjects: History: World

Articles:

"The Popes and Slavery"—book review - Leonard A. Kennedy, C.S.B.

Catholics were guilty for centuries of having slaves or profiting from the slave trade in spite of the fact that the popes taught clearly and frequently the evil of slavery,"and even legislated severe ecclesiastical penalties for engaging in it. Email This Article

800,000 Saved by Pius XII’s ‘Silence’ - DONALD DEMARCO

The 1963 play, "The Deputy" by Rolf Hochhuth, which presents Pope Pius XII’s silence during the holocaust as criminal, inhuman and cowardly, almost certainly generated the largest controversy in the history of drama. Email This Article

A Necessary Bondage? When the Church Endorsed Slavery - T. David Curp

An important function of history, as opposed to antiquarianism, is to make the past intelligible to the present. Email This Article

A Righteous Gentile: Pope Pius XII and the Jews - Rabbi David G. Dalin

A new authentically Jewish history of Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust needs to be written in order to help bring some long-overdue recognition to this "righteous gentile," a man whose legacy is as one of the century's great friends of the Jewish people. Email This Article

Ah, Youth: When the Church Was Young - Mike Aquilina

The Church Fathers had a distinctive approach to youth ministry. I discovered it in the course of an afternoon's research. Email This Article

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history - Dinesh D'Souza

In recent months, a spate of atheist books have argued that religion represents, as End of Faith author Sam Harris puts it, "the most potent source of human conflict, past and present." Email This Article

Back to History: Returning Students Have New Textbook - Tim Drake

When students return to school this year, some will have a new resource that has not been available for more than 35 years — a modern, full-color, authentically Catholic history textbook. Email This Article

Back to the Beginning: A Brief Introduction to the Ancient Catholic Church - George Sim Johnston

The culture is now flooded with bogus scholarship whose main purpose is to put Christianity — and especially orthodox Catholicism — on the defensive. But most Catholics have no idea how to respond, and more than a few take these books and documentaries at face value. After all, they have the imprimatur of the History Channel or a large publishing house like Doubleday. Email This Article

Beyond the Myth of The Inquisition: Ours Is "The Golden Age - FR. BRIAN VAN HOVE S.J.

In his scholarly and thorough review of how different historians have handled the subject of the Inquisition Father Van Hove has given us a richly referenced article well suited for serious upper level papers. Email This Article

Blaming the Wartime Pope - KENNETH L. WOODWARD

During the second world war, Pope Pius XII was lauded for his singular efforts to halt the carnage, writes Newsweek’s Kenneth Woodward. And for years after, he was praised for the church's efforts in saving an estimated 700,000 Jews from the Nazi death camps—mainly by issuing false baptismal certificates to Jews, disguising some in cassocks and hiding others in cloistered monasteries and convents. Email This Article

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