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Michael B. Kelly received his doctorate in history from the University of Notre Dame. He is now associate professor of history at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia, and specializes in the English Reformation.
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An immense and magisterial history of English monasticism

July 22, 2022 Michael B. Kelly 9

Researching land-ownership patterns in early seventeenth-century England, antiquarian Sir Henry Spelman discovered within a twenty-four-mile circle on the map of Norfolk the sites of no less than twenty-four monasteries, dissolved by Henry VIII seventy-odd years […]

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Eamon Duffy’s “Reformation Divided” revises assumptions, offers deep historical insights

July 8, 2017 Michael B. Kelly 12

The five hundredth anniversary of the issuing of the Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther, the event customarily taken as the inauguration of the Protestant Reformation, is this October 31st. For such an anniversary, everyone who […]

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Cahill’s Self-Serving History of Heretics and Heroes

July 1, 2014 Michael B. Kelly 0

Since publishing the amusing How the Irish Saved Civilization in 1995, best-selling author Thomas Cahill has added five further volumes to his history of the West, the Hinges of History series. The latest volume, Heretics […]

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Today Pope Francis took a helicopter to Castel Gandolfo to meet with his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict. Below is the account of the meeting given by Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi: The helicopter landed in Castel Gandolfo […]

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