The Myth of the Religious Wars

For generations there has endured a certain liberal narrative of...
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St. Joan and the Faerie Tree of Domrémy

The story of St. Joan of Arc is unparalleled in the annals of we...
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Jansenism Phase Two: 1665-1701

Jansenism is a difficult heresy to categorize. What began as a ...
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St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre Death Toll

Though over four centuries have passed, the St. Bartholomew Day ...
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Gens du Beaucet (d. 1127)

St. Gens du Beaucet (1104-1127) was a medieval French hermit-sai...
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Lambert of Maastricht (d. 700)

St. Lambert of Maestricht (633-700) may not be a familiar name, ...
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The Origins of Jansenism

What is Jansenism? One cannot discuss the history of the Catholi...
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The Great Storm of August, 1792

August 10th, 1792, has been called the day the devil entered the...
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Eminent Catholics of 1600-1787

Besides the religious critiques of the Catholic Church offered b...
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A Miracle at Mont-St.-Michel

One of the most popular literary genres of the Middle Ages were ...
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Convulsionaries (1759)

It sometimes happens in the history of the Church that when doct...
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Affaires des Fiches (1904-1905)

The year was 1904. The French government of the Third Republic w...
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