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Home: Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Requiem for the Third See of Christendom - Robert SpencerEgypt today is the site of a persecution of the Church on a scale unseen in Western Europe since the darkest days of the French Revolution; the Coptic Church is fighting for its life under vicious and escalating attacks from Muslims. Read more... Rethinking the Crusades - Jonathan Riley SmithThe language that demands that our ancestors be posthumously anathematized is not too distant from that of the men who wanted the corpse of Pope Boniface VIII to be exhumed and burnt. We may be entering a period of conceptual uncertainty about the most difficult of all society’s dilemmas — when or when not to use force — and we need not emotion, but cool heads and an objective analysis of the past. Read more... Rethinking the Crusades - William UrbanWe encourage our history students to venture beyond the memorization of facts and concepts. We should do the same by periodically rethinking the meaning of critical moments in the past. The time is ripe for a reassessment of the Crusades in light of our present concerns. There are four plausible directions this reassessment will take. Read more... Roman Catholicism - Fr. John Hardon, S.J.Not the least difficulty in writing about Catholicism is the problem of isolating the subject. The history of the Catholic Church is so closely woven into Christian civilization that the one cannot be told fairly without the other. Read more... Roman Cruelty, Christian Purity - Mike AquilinaIt was Christian morality, and the evident love of Christian families, that gradually converted the Roman Empire. Read more... Russia, Communism, and the Future of the World - Fr. Robert J. FoxThe plan of communism, instigated over a century ago, called for a violent overthrow of existing society. Read more... Spanish Civil War: 75 Years Later - Victor GaetanOn July 17, Catholic churches in Spain marked with sadness and prayer the 75th anniversary of a brutal, convulsive, three-year conflict. For the Catholic Church, the Spanish Civil War was a low point in a century with a lot of lows. Read more... Status: Inquisition in the Catholic Church - BENJAMIN D. WICKERTo assess the Inquisition properly, we must distinguish between the principle which undergirded it, and the actions of those responsible for implementing the principle. Read more... Survival of the Faithful - Mike AquilinaWhen Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in AD 312, there were already many millions of Christians in the empire. What was their life like? In one sense, it was no different from the lives of their pagan neighbors. In another sense, their faith made all the difference in the world. Read more... The 1,400 year-war - George JonasSchoolboys in my native Hungary used to recite an old ditty. It conjured up emotions ossified in the seams of time. Read more... The Age of Persecution - Father John A. Hardon, S.J.The Catholic Church has been persecuted in every period of her history. However, the first three centuries of the Christian era are commonly known as the Age of Persecution because they show how promptly and aggressively the Church's enemies came to fulfill Christ's prediction to His followers, "If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you." Read more... The Battle over the Crusades - Robert P. LockwoodThe Crusades, of course, are a far more complicated series of events in history than the anti-Catholic statements of early Protestant historians would suggest. The Crusades should be understood within the context of the times and by their reality, rather than through the myths created for purposes of propaganda. Read more... The Battle that Saved the Christian West - Christopher CheckAmericans know that in 1492 Christopher Columbus "sailed the ocean blue," but how many know that in the same year the heroic Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella conquered the Moors in Grenada? Read more... The Catholic Church - Christopher DawsonThe religion which was destined to conquer the Roman Empire and to become permanently identified with the life of the West was indeed of purely oriental origin and had no roots in the European past or in the traditions of classical civilisation. Read more... The Catholic Church in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Fr. Robert J. FoxThe world — in transition intellectually and culturally and therefore spiritually — has been blessed in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries with very holy popes. Read more... The Catholic Origins of Manliness - Michael P. FoleyIn his fascinating book Manliness, Harvey Mansfield identifies Achilles as a paragon of virility. Read more... The Christian Story and the World's Story - George WeigelIn A Short World History of Christianity, Robert Bruce Mullin offers us, not a theological interpretation of history but a concise narrative of the Church's life in the world -- the Church's life between "Redemption" and "the Kingdom of God." Read more... The Church and the Jews in the Middle Ages - Thomas F. MaddenWe might well wish that the relationship between the medieval Catholic Church and the Jews had been better, friendlier, more modern. But it was not modern, nor should we expect it to be. It was, however, a relationship marked by mutual respect and a remarkable degree of tolerance in an age that knew little of either. Read more... The Cold War Pope - Mary EberstadtAlexander Solzhenitsyn was almost alone in the West in grasping immediately the shattering historical significance of Wojtyla's election. Upon hearing of it, he threw out his arms and exclaimed, "It's a miracle! It's the first positive event since World War I, and it's going to change the face of the world!" Read more... The Coptic condition - Barbara KayEgyptian Christians are learning what Jews have long known: For unpopular minorities, 'democracy' is often a lot more dangerous than dictatorship. Read more... The Crescent and the Scimitar - Christian C. SahnerStanding on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in what is modern-day Morocco, the Arab general Uqba must have felt a mixture of exultation and disappointment. Read more... The Crusades - Paul CrawfordThis article presents an overview of the Crusades. Read more... The Crusades - Anne CarrollThis history and apologetic for the Crusades is suitable for junior or senior high school social studies or history students. Read more... The Crusades and Their Critics - James HitchcockWhile it has become customary to view the Crusades as a historical aberration, they can also be viewed as an important factor in the formation of the Christian West. Many of those who condemn the Crusades fully understand this and wish that the Muslims had conquered Europe and aborted the rise of Christendom. Read more... The Death of Scotland's Queen - John LingardHer step was firm, and her countenance cheerful. Read more... Pages Updated On: Thu Jan 19 2012 - 19:45:47
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