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by | May 7, 2024

Scholars have regularly argued that the Founding Fathers of the United States were well versed in the history and thinking…

by | Apr 8, 2024

Rome was an empty and broken city in 1341. The popes had fled to France where the castles weren’t crumbling,…

by | Mar 5, 2024

You might be forgiven for assuming that Italy, the cradle of Catholicism and Western Christianity more broadly, is a Christian…

by | Feb 24, 2024

Germany’s Catholic bishops have abandoned their plans to form a forbidden Synodal Council to replace the authority of bishops with…

by | Feb 10, 2024

I’ve heard a lot about “settler colonialism” lately. It’s usually applied to Jews who, for the past 150 years have…

by | Feb 5, 2024

When we think of Rome in the ancient world, we tend to think of the massive military empire that eventually…

by | Nov 18, 2023

In a new declaration published by the Vatican, the Catholic Church is reaffirming its opposition to one of its ancient…

by | Oct 27, 2023

Most major “modernization” efforts in the Roman Catholic Church tend to be something of a wash: not modern enough to…

by | Oct 9, 2023

What should be the natural response of a nation if its ally suffers an extreme and devastating surprise invasion? Joe…

by | Oct 6, 2023

For decades, I taught a course in European economic history that stressed the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath and spent…

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