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Home: Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... The Devil's Advocate - WILLIAM D. RUBINSTEINAs Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli was the most controversial of modern Popes. Regarded during his lifetime as truly a prince among men, since his death he has been subject to endless debate, criticism, and defense, especially for his alleged “silence” during the Nazi genocide against the Jews. Read more... The Division of Christendom and its Consequences - Christopher DawsonIn the 16th century religion came to be regarded as one among a number of competing interests — a limited department of life, which had no jurisdiction over the rest. And as it lost its universal authority, it lost its universal vision; it became sectionalized and rationalized with the rest of European life. Read more... The Early Church: How Christians elevated culture - Anthony EsolenWhat did the Christians cherish from the pagan traditions, and what did they change? Read more... The Fall of Rome: Season Two - Gerard J. RusselloWhat was perhaps the most pro-Christian show on television did not have a single Christian character in it — and there was no way it could have. Read more... The French Revolution and the Church - George J. MarlinToday, July 14, is Bastille Day, the commemoration of the revolution that brought down France's Ancien Régime and led to the establishment of a new order that promised to totally refashion society Read more... The God That Did Not Fail - Most Reverend Charles J. ChaputThe God That Did Not Fail is one of the best books I’ve read in years — important, absorbing and very well informed. Read more... The Heritage of Western Civilization - Cardinal George PellCardinal Pell reminds us that the heritage of Western Civilization comes from its uniquely Christian character. Read more... The Inquisition - Anne W. CarrollThe Spanish Inquisition and the social/historical context in which it took place is explained in this excerpt from Christ the King: Lord of History. Read more... The Inquisition - FR. WILLIAM G. MOSTThis topic is a favorite for attacking the Church. We need to remember two things: 1) Actions are not the same as teachings. 2) The abuses were much less than most people think. Read more... The Martyr’s Cup - Mike AquilinaThe early Christians give us the signs of the Christian life: The Eucharist celebrated and lives poured out. Read more... The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition - Ellen RiceThe 1994 BBC/A&E production, "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition" exposes the common understanding that the Inquisition was a vast pogrom of non Catholics as largely the creation of Protestant propaganda. Read more... The Outlook for Christian Culture - Christopher DawsonIn spite of the increasing secularization of culture both in the West and in the world at large, I feel that the outlook for Christian culture is brighter than it has been for a considerable time — perhaps even two hundred and fifty years. Read more... The Papacy and the Modern World - Christopher DawsonThe Popes of the twentieth century have been called to rule the Church in an age of revolutionary change when one catastrophe has followed upon another, when the old landmarks have been submerged by the flood of change and the old rules of tradition and precedent no longer avail. Read more... The Patriarchal Family in History - Christopher DawsonThe family is not a product of culture; it is, as Malinowski shows, “the starting point of all human organization” and “the cradle of nascent culture.” Read more... The plot to kill the Pope - John O’SullivanThis May will mark the 25 th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II. It took place on May 13, 1981 in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Only a few weeks earlier, on March 30, Ronald Reagan had survived an attempted assassination in Washington. Read more... The Real History of the Crusades - Thomas F. MaddenThe crusades are quite possibly the most misunderstood event in European history. Most of what passes for public knowledge about it is either misleading or just plain wrong Read more... The Relevance of Christopher Dawson – Book Review - Gerald J. Russello"Progress and Religion" was perhaps the most influential of Christopher Dawson’s many influential books. Anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religion, and history formed the backdrop for the key idea that religion is the soul of a culture and that a society or culture which has lost its spiritual roots is a dying culture. To Dawson, a return to the Christian culture that had formed Western civilization was the only remedy for a world adrift. Read more... The Rights of Man - Christopher DawsonIn the victory of the American Revolution European liberals saw the justification of their ideals and the realization of their hopes. It turned the current of the Enlightenment in a political direction and infused a revolutionary purpose into the democratic idealism of Rousseau. Read more... The Road to Modernity - JAMES HITCHCOCKWestern Civilization is chiefly the product of a dynamic mixture of two elements—the Judaeo-Christian religious tradition and the tradition of rational investigation and artistic creativity coming down from the Greeks. Read more... 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