The great religious upheaval of the sixteenth century contributed to the long-term decline of religion and the rise of secularism in the West, although few of the participants could have foreseen this at the time.
As 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.
The 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.
Canada's Viking Trail marks the site of the arrival of Viking explorers 1,000 years ago, nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus made his momentous voyage. For the Catholic traveler, the Viking Trail means the region in which Christianity first came to the New World.
He was very forward in succouring the poor, and in that gratuitous generosity which the Greeks call alms, so much so that he not only made a point of giving in his own country and his own kingdom, but when he discovered that there were Christians living in poverty in Syria, Egypt, and Africa, at Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Carthage, he had compassion on their wants, and used to send money over the seas to them.
Once the Communists took control of China in 1948, they didn't wait to make it known there would be no place for religion in the new order.
A condescending noblesse oblige continues to cloud our discussions of European and Native cultures.
In his scholarly and thorough review of how different historians have handled the subject of the Inquisition Father Van Hove has given us a richly referenced article well suited for serious upper level papers.
