Historical Studies

Is he or is he not on the road to being canonized? In the coming weeks, the fate of Gilbert Keith Chesterton will be known. Soon, all eyes will turn upon Canon John Udris as he presents his written report to the bishop of Northampton, England, with, thereafter, a decision being... Read more

LEICESTER, United Kingdom - Checking bloodstains, re-enacting crimes, hitting the lab to check the results: It has been the bread-and-butter of police procedurals since “CSI” first premiered in 2000. Now it has been used to test what some say is the surviving evidence of the most... Read more

Nagasaki, Japan, Jul 3, 2018 / 02:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Places of major importance for Japanese Christianity, including the Nagasaki basilica commemorating 26 Catholic martyrs, have been selected as UNESCO World Heritage sites. “These sites bear unique testimony to a cultural tradition... Read more

  On a sunny Saturday in July 1968, a man and a woman stood together on a reviewing stand looking out on Chicago’s Soldier Field. Before them were 1,000 athletes playing hockey, swimming laps and running track. The athletes hailed from 26 U.S. states and Canada. All were... Read more

Can those inhabiting the West agree anymore on what constitutes a Western civilization worth preserving? An old friend who is a classics professor at a highly-respected university told me recently that he didn’t believe in “self-congratulatory fictions of ‘the West’ and ‘Western... Read more

In the introduction to the French edition of Darwin's Origin of Species, Clémence Royer claimed that Darwin's theory called for the elimination of "all the disgraces of nature" among humanity, and social Darwinism was born. In 1871 Darwin's cousin Francis Galton gave this belief a name,... Read more

The “fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English Colonies probably than in any other people on the earth. . . . Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out of impaired . . . . The people are Protestants; and of that kind which is most adverse to all... Read more

On the day that the Continental Congress approved its resolution for independence for the American colonies, July 2, 1776, John Adams wrote Patrick Henry, “The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be... Read more

In a primary defeat that the New York Times has called “the most significant loss for a Democratic incumbent in more than a decade,” ten-term Representative Joseph Crowley of New York was defeated in a Queens and Bronx district that is majority-minority by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a... Read more

The Archdiocese of Madrid has warned the Spanish government against plans to exhume the remains of the country’s late dictator, General Francisco Franco, without obtaining agreement from interested parties. “We want a solution which helps build a peaceful country,” said Rodrigo Pinedo... Read more