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Priest-ridden. Not an adjective one comes across too often, but it has been near-ubiquitous in the 10 days since the Quebec election.
When James Madison agitated to make religious freedom fundamental to the United States Constitution, it was not from hostility to religion. It was from hostility to established religion, with its presumption of an authority in worldly affairs that only an elected government should exercise.
Like the martyrs in the early church or the Christians who were persecuted under communism, slaves "are the primary example in American history of Christians who suffered for their faith."
The story of Catholicism in America may be an open book, but the book reads very differently depending on who's doing the writing.
In 1215, to celebrate the resolution of a controversy regarding Christ's real presence in the Eucharist, Pope Innocent III declared a new holiday: Corpus Christi. What happened then should astonish us.
How many times have your heard that "Our founding fathers were not Christians! They were deists!"? It is an absurd assertion.
This chapter explores the early days of the English colonies, when the rights of Catholics were not respected, to the end of the nineteenth century.
In 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.