You might be forgiven for assuming that Italy, the cradle of Catholicism and Western Christianity more broadly, is a Christian nation. After all, a cursory glance at statistics (and the country’s recent conservative voting record) suggests that it is —…
Germany’s Catholic bishops have abandoned their plans to form a forbidden Synodal Council to replace the authority of bishops with a democratic body of clergy and laity. On the eve of their annual plenary assembly, the German bishops were given…
I’ve heard a lot about “settler colonialism” lately. It’s usually applied to Jews who, for the past 150 years have been migrating back to the ancestral homeland of Judaism, which in 1948 was carved out of the remains of the…
When we think of Rome in the ancient world, we tend to think of the massive military empire that eventually stretched across three continents. We think of the Senate, Julius Caesar, and Brutus. What we don’t think of is the…
In a new declaration published by the Vatican, the Catholic Church is reaffirming its opposition to one of its ancient enemies. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document last week reiterating, “On the doctrinal level, it…
Most major “modernization” efforts in the Roman Catholic Church tend to be something of a wash: not modern enough to please the progressive liberals in places like Germany and Chicago; offensive in kind to the traditionalists in Texas and Poland;…
What should be the natural response of a nation if its ally suffers an extreme and devastating surprise invasion? Joe Biden had the opportunity to provide an answer to that question this weekend — and it wasn’t the right one….
For decades, I taught a course in European economic history that stressed the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath and spent a couple of lectures talking about the Roman Empire and other ancient civilizations. The Roman Empire lasted over 500 years…
WASHINGTON — There is still more gibberish emitting from the Pope as he travels to and from the Far East. Now he is safely home in the Vatican, so only his close advisers will hear the claptrap that comes from…
Gladiator alumni Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix will reunite to portray another one of history’s greatest military geniuses: Napoleon. And, like its titular character in the trailer says, he and the movie promise to be “brilliant successes.” Apple TV dropped…