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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Crusaders and Conversion
In the secular histories of modernity, it has become common to proclaim a moral equivalency between the forcible conversions...
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A Council Hijacked by the Media?
In some extraordinarily candid comments to the clergy of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI recently reflected on the Second Vatican Co...
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The Life of St. John Gualbert
The Balamand Conference (1993)
Many of the difficulties in modern Catholic missions can be traded to the little-known but immensely important Balamand Conf...
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Catholics and Tithing
How do various Christian groups differ from each other regarding the amount of money donated to their respective churches? E...
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