Early in Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s 2009 Booker Prize-winning novel of Tudor England, a young Thomas Cromwell is made to witness the gleeful burning of an accused heretic. A mother figure in the crowd brings the […]
July is the first full month of summer, a time for lazy hazy days of going on vacation, cooling off, doing nothing. For historians, it is the month when things really start to heat up, […]
If you have access to a radio station that carries the Saturday matinee broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera, you have a memorable experience waiting for you. On January 28, the featured work will be Francis […]
Blessed Martyrs of Compiègne were guillotined for their faith on July 17, 1794. / Photo illustration.
Denver Newsroom, Feb 25, 2022 / 13:40 pm (CNA).
Their voices sang out from the scaffold as they went to their death only July 17, 1794, during… […]
A stained glass window depicting Blessed Marie Rivier in the motherhouse of Sisters of the Presentation of Mary in France. / Public domain
Vatican City, Dec 13, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to Blessed Ma… […]
Solignac Abbey in west-central France. / Courtesy of the Diocese of Limoges.
Limoges, France, Aug 5, 2021 / 08:30 am (CNA).
On Aug. 1, Benedictine monks moved into the emblematic Solignac Abbey in west-central France after a 230-year absence. It… […]
Pope Francis waves from the window of the Apostolic Palace on Feb. 7, 2021. / Vatican Media/CNA.
Vatican City, Apr 18, 2021 / 08:00 am (CNA).
In his Regina Coeli address Sunday, Pope Francis applauded the beatification of six Cistercian monks w… […]
“Stab, smite, slay!” roared Luther. Such was his advice to the German aristocracy during the notorious Peasants’ Revolt. Some of the latter doubtless had it coming, and Luther could justify his advice theologically with his […]
There is a curious and intriguing passage in the third chapter of St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, which in the context of the missive seems almost tossed-off, but which has proven to be a […]
Émile Faguet, the French author and literary critic of the second half of the 19th century, described Joseph de Maistre as “a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, and intransigent legitimist, apostle of a monstrous trinity […]
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