Yes, the university was a Medieval guild, born from the bosom of the Church.

Ramon sat upon the shore, looking southward upon the broad and sunlit sea.

Who still reads the great French prophets of the 20th century?

"Has there ever been a cookbook with the favorite dishes of Popes and Saints, wrapped in the beauty of the Vatican? Well, there is now. Wow!" - Michael Symon (The Chew, Iron Chef)

Matteo Ricci may well have been the most interesting Westerner ever to have entered China.

Boethius was the one man most responsible for bequeathing classical learning to the West, to survive the Dark Ages to come, until the Medieval world should burst forth in its wonderful light.

What is their primary weapon?

Unlike the conspiracy theory that William Shakespeare was really the more educated Earl of Oxford, the rival Christopher Marlowe, or the polymath Francis Bacon, the story of the Catholic Shakespeare is now a mainstream if not a consensus view among scholars.  

No event approaches the Resurrection of Christ in its effect on the world.

For the first time in the history of the world, there was a reliable way to hand music along from one generation to the next.