History of Western Civilization

February 18 – Fra Angelico brought part of heaven to earth

February 16, 2015

The Crusades – Part II

February 12, 2015

The Crusades – Part I

February 9, 2015

The First Crusade

February 5, 2015

January 28 – Great in every sense

January 26, 2015

Luther Thought He Was Divine!

January 22, 2015

January 20 – St. Sebastian

January 19, 2015

January 17 – Scanderbeg: the hero of Christendom

January 15, 2015

January 13 – The bold strategic vision of Cluny

January 12, 2015

January 15 – Most Glorious King Ceolwulp

January 12, 2015

Charlemagne and charity

January 8, 2015

January 2 – St. Gregory of Nazianzus

January 1, 2015

December 28 – Ordered to swear allegiance to Napoleon, he replied “I cannot. I ought not. I will not!”

December 25, 2014

Charlemagne, Cornerstone of the Middle Ages

December 22, 2014

December 23 – Duke of Guise

December 22, 2014

Isabella the Catholic brings change to Chess

December 18, 2014

Embracing the Fight to Restore Christendom

December 18, 2014

United in Common Struggle, for a Common Cause

December 15, 2014

December 17 – St. Olympias

December 15, 2014

November 28 – Count Louis de Baude Frontenac

November 27, 2014

November 25 – The day a 16 year old invalid and a handful of men defeated a huge professional army

November 24, 2014

November 26 – How a Catholic Queen gave Spain its Golden Age

November 24, 2014

November 27 – The king who made France “First-born daughter of the Church”

November 24, 2014

November 15 – Profoundly impressed by the religious atmosphere of his home

November 13, 2014

November 12 – Fearless and Bold

November 10, 2014

November 12 – Kidnapped, sold as a slave, ransomed by a bishop, and confidante of the emperor

November 10, 2014

November 12 – How a Constable of France dies in battle

November 10, 2014

November 13 – Grand Master of the Order of Christ

November 10, 2014

November 13 – He calmed the fear of the end of the world

November 10, 2014

November 7 – He Went on Crusade to Atone for His Sins

November 6, 2014

The Secret of the Middle Ages

November 3, 2014

Rewards of the Cross

October 30, 2014

November 1 – For saving her people, she was made their judge

October 30, 2014

Pursuit of Excellence

October 27, 2014

October 28 – Saint, Soldier, Statesman

October 27, 2014

October 29 – King turned monk, his people begged him to lead them in battle against Penda

October 27, 2014

October 25 – The original hood

October 23, 2014

October 27 – The Christian King Who Invaded Arabia

October 23, 2014

Making a Sacrifice

October 20, 2014

October 18 – A day that sparked the Crusades

October 16, 2014

October 18 – Adopted nobility

October 16, 2014

Why celebrate Columbus Day?

October 13, 2014

October 16 – Marie Antoinette

October 13, 2014

The Great Works of Men

October 9, 2014

October 12 – Difficulties in his youth prepared him for later trials

October 9, 2014

Who Was Christopher Columbus, and Why Is He Important?

October 9, 2014

Uniting the Idealist and the Pragmatist

October 2, 2014

The Crusading Bagel

September 29, 2014

October 1 – How the “man sent by God” spent his last moments

September 29, 2014

Can Only Sacred Art Be Christian?

September 25, 2014

September 26 – Fr. Frederick William Faber

September 25, 2014

September 27 – These exemplary nobles personified virtue

September 25, 2014

September 28 – Good King Wenceslaus

September 25, 2014

Godfrey of Bouillon refuses the crown of Jerusalem

September 22, 2014

September 24 – “There is nothing so sublime as the papacy nor so exalted as the imperial throne”

September 22, 2014

September 24 – Founding Father

September 22, 2014

September 13 – He had a mouth of gold

September 11, 2014

September 14 – Formerly a sign of abject disgrace, it now adorns even crowns and crests

September 11, 2014

September 15 – Grandmother of Good King Wenceslaus

September 11, 2014

September 11 – Prince Eugen of Savoy crushes the Turks at Zenta

September 8, 2014

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