Revisiting Dictatus Papae
During the Investiture Conflict over the rights and prerogatives of the spiritual and temporal powers, many claims were made...
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Propriae auctoritates apostolicae sedis
The 11th century was an extremely fruitful time for debate and theorization about the limits of papal power in the Church. T...
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Gesta Romanorum: The Severed Foot
The Gesta Romanorum was written at the turn of the 14th century; this collection of anecdotes and tales w...
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Athwulf of Thorney (d. 680)
St. Athwulf was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and brother of the more famous St. Botolph, also an abbot as well as a bishop. Very lit...
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History of Eucharistic Adoration to 1254
Among Protestant and secular historians alike, there is a tendency to assert that the practice of Eucharistic Adoration is o...
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C.S. Lewis, the Psalms, and Modernism
What are traditional Catholics to make of C.S. Lewis? Is he to be enlisted in the defense of the faith as an ally, or i...
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