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Home: Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: History: World: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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 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... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [>>] Pages Updated On: 09-Feb-2011 - 13:39:30
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