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Home: Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Back to History: Returning Students Have New Textbook - Tim DrakeWhen 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. Read more... Back to the Beginning: A Brief Introduction to the Ancient Catholic Church - George Sim JohnstonThe 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. Read more... 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. Read more... Blaming the Wartime Pope - KENNETH L. WOODWARDDuring 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. Read more... British Abolition's Faith-Based Roots - Joseph LoconteIn the fierce struggles of the 19th century to abolish slavery, Abraham Lincoln remains the mythic American champion. In Britain, however, that honor belongs to William Wilberforce, the Christian activist and member of Parliament who thundered against the slave trade for 20 years. Read more... Catholic Martyrs of the Holocaust - Matthew BunsenBy 1939, more than 10,000 Catholic schools had been closed and the Catholic boys and girls sent to Nazi public schools for indoctrination. Read more... Catholicism and Economics in the Ancient World - Christopher DawsonThe infant Church was born at a time when the greatest state that the world had ever seen was attaining to its full development. And yet the whole splendid building rested on non-moral foundations — often on mere violence and cruelty. Read more... Charlemagne - EginhardHe was very forward in succouring the poor, and in that gratuitous generosity which the Greeks call alms, so much so that he not only made a point of giving in his own country and his own kingdom, but when he discovered that there were Christians living in poverty in Syria, Egypt, and Africa, at Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Carthage, he had compassion on their wants, and used to send money over the seas to them. Read more... Christian culture and the lives of the saints - Christopher DawsonWhereas the secular historian is in no way committed to the cultures of the past, the Catholic is bound to the past by his belief in the continuity of tradition, so that he sees all the successive ages of the Church and all the different forms of Christian culture as an organic part of one living whole in which he participates. Read more... Christian Culture in the Ancient World - Christopher DawsonThe present article is intended as an abstract of a basic course on the elements of Christian culture for the first of these phases (i.e., Christianity in the Ancient, the Medieval, and the Modern World). Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [>>] Pages Updated On: 18-Nov-2009 - 14:43:12
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