by Steve Weidenkopf | Jun 4, 2019 | Church History
You never know where you’re going to meet a possible future saint: at church, in the grocery store, or strapped to a parachute just a few hundred feet over occupied France, surrounded by a cacophony of roaring engines and exploding anti-aircraft shells. Read the rest...
by Steve Weidenkopf | Apr 17, 2019 | Church History
When the magnificent Cathedral of Our Lady (Notre Dame) in Paris caught fire earlier this week, the world was mesmerized by the apparent destruction of such an historical and holy edifice—one of the most widely recognized and frequently visited structures in the...
by Steve Weidenkopf | Jan 11, 2019 | Church History
What could have been? It is likely this question came to the mind of the forty-four-year-old Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and the rightful queen of England, on the morning of February 8, 1587, as she awaited her execution at the hands of English Protestants. Her tragic...
by Steve Weidenkopf | Jun 19, 2018 | Church History
The Western academic bias against the Christian faith in general and the Catholic Church specifically has been ongoing since the Enlightenment. Although today there are some areas of scholarship where the bias has been beaten back or even dismantled, in most...
by Steve Weidenkopf | Apr 13, 2018 | Church History
The men who have worn the shoes of the fisherman have overwhelmingly been holy individuals dedicated to leading the Church through the turmoil of human history. Of course, there have been some who led less than holy lives and used the papacy for political and economic...
by Steve Weidenkopf | Feb 21, 2018 | Church History
By the eleventh century, the Church found itself in great need of reform, especially the clergy, and the Holy Spirit provided a series of reform-minded popes. These popes began their ecclesial careers as monks, and many of them had spent time at the famous reformed...
