Features
Revisiting and understanding the “Galileo Affair”
“The Galileo Affair needed to be looked at again,” says Dom Paschal Scotti, “because it is one the great events, climactic events even, in European […]
History
History
In the Habit: A History of Catholicism and Tobacco
Saints who smoked, popes who puffed, and others who snuffed. […]
Features
A Catholic guide to great books and films about communism
Not only do most young people not learn about the horror and evil wrought by communism, it’s not uncommon to hear seemingly well-informed academics, politicians, […]
History
The Reformation reformed
The chronology of the Reformation no longer opens with Luther’s 95 Theses. The seeds of revolt were planted long before 1517. […]
History
Women and the Protestant Reformation
Luther and the Reformers went to war against the evangelical counsels as ideals and as the core of a vowed, religious life. Every woman—it was […]
Features
When evil triumphed: The 100th anniversary of Russia’s October Revolution
The centenary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 should be an occasion for understanding Marxism’s amoral and pseudo-religious nature. […]
Features
The Last Jesuit in China
Dr. Amanda C. R. Clark’s book China’s Last Jesuit tells the little known story of Fr. Charles J. McCarthy and the end of the mission […]
Features
Two Englishmen whose lives were commentary on the question of conscience
For Thomas More, following his conscience led him to martyrdom; for John Henry Newman, following his conscience led him to become a Catholic. […]
Books
Eamon Duffy’s “Reformation Divided” revises assumptions, offers deep historical insights
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 […]
History
Martin Luther: True reformer or defender of erroneous conscience?
Two trials, two appeals to conscience. Trial 1: I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. […]