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Home: Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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 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 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... 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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