Anti-Catholic Revolution and Catholic RevivalÂ
The 18th century was a low point for the Church, particularly in France. But François-René de Chateaubriand would sow the seeds of the Catholic revival in France.
Four More Catholic Scientists You Might Not Know Â
The history of science is filled with faithful Catholics who sought to discover more and more about God’s creation.
Two Catholic Scientists You Might Not Know
Already effectively disproved through the rational arguments of philosophy and the evidence of history, atheism is now being debunked by the physical sciences.Â
The Unsung Convert Who Converted Millions to Catholic Teaching
E.F. Schumacher succeeded in popularizing Catholic social teaching in a way that far exceeded the limited success of Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton to do the same thing fifty years earlier.
JFK’s Other Assassination
Ngo Dinh Diem, the first President of South Vietnam, and JFK were both Catholics, though Catholics of very different persuasions.
African American Heroes of the Faith
Mother Mary Lange’s loyalty to the Catholic Faith and her tireless life of service to Christ and the Church He had founded was evident throughout her life.
A Neglected Novelist
It would be good for today’s Catholics to know more about Maurice Baring and to discover what they’ve been missing in their ignorance of his work.Â
A Song of Praise to Six Unsung Singers of Sacred Music
The nineteenth century was a time of great Catholic revival in Europe and the Americas; and nowhere was this more evident than in France, particularly in six music composers.
A King Among Fools and Flatterers
During the reign of the Danish king Canute, a devout Christian, the Faith in England flourished.
A Convert Among Communists and Carmelites
Roy Campbell is mostly unknown today, but he once enjoyed fame and endured infamy—attacked bitterly by C.S. Lewis and defended vociferously by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Unsung St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas Owen was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, killed during the reign of King James I.
Unsung Heroes of Christendom
We need to recognize those lesser-known saints whose lives of heroic self-sacrifice have been forgotten, the heroes who helped build Christendom.