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Home: Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis - Bernard LewisBernard Lewis has often been described as the West's greatest historian and interpreter of Islam. At a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life held on April 27 in Washington, D.C., Professor Lewis, in a wide ranging discussion with an assemblage of American writers and thinkers, gives his views of current and future prospects for the West's relationship with Islam. Read more... Islam’s Imperial Dreams - Efraim KarshToday as in the past, Islamic political ambitions are less a reaction to Western encroachments than an imperative driven by history and faith. Read more... June 1979—The Nine Days of John Paul II - George WeigelAmerica's premier Cold War historian, John Lewis Gaddis of Yale, is not ambiguous in his judgment that "When John Paul II kissed the ground at the Warsaw airport on June 2, 1979, he began the process by which communism in Poland -- and ultimately everywhere -- would come to an end." Read more... Light to the Nations: Reclaiming the Catholic Historical Imagination - ROLLIN A. LASSETERThe study of history in Catholic schools awaits restoration to its proper role and emphasis, anchoring the present to the past and allowing young people to take their stand with the good and the noble of all ages. Read more... Monasteries and Madrassas: Five Myths About Christianity, Islam, and the Middle Ages - H.W. Crocker IIIDoes Islam need a Reformation? Not unless you think it would benefit from additional dollops of Puritanism; further encouragement to smash altars, stained glass, and other forms of “idolatry”; prodding to ban riotous celebrations like Christmas and Easter; and support for fundamentalist Islamic schools that insist on sola Korana and sola Sunnah. Read more... More Cautionary Horror Shows - Edward ShortMichael Burleigh is a brilliant historian whose history of the clash between religion and politics should not be missed. Read more... Most Of Rome’s Jews Were Saved From Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’ - L’Osservatore RomanoThe following is a translation of an interview that Mr. Nikolaus Kunkel, a witness to Pius XII’s actions to save Roman Jews during the Second World War, gave to the German Catholic News Agency (KNA) on November 7, 2000. Read more... Nazi Policy and the Catholic Church - KAROL JOZEF GAJEWSKIThough Hitler felt a particular urgency — and hatred — when dealing with Jews and Communists, he viewed the Catholic Church as a pernicious opponent, a deeply-entrenched threat that must be controlled and eventually uprooted from German life in order to establish his promised Thousand-Year-Reich. Read more... Not Conspiracies but Mistakes - Vincent RyanA new popular account cuts through some popular misconceptions to provide an accurate accounting for the disasters of the Fourth Crusade. Read more... Nuns Who Saved Polish Jews - Father Zygmunt ZielinskiAs the world commemorates Yom HaShoah Day, remembering the Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis during Holocaust, a Polish priest recounts the heroic rescues of Polish Jews by Catholic Nuns. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [>>] Pages Updated On: 18-Nov-2009 - 14:43:13
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