In his latest column, Monsignor Owen Campion tells the story of the Daughters of Charity, who staffed a hospital in New Orleans for patients diagnosed with Hansen’s disease — or leprosy, as it’s commonly known — after nobody else was willing to
When the Vatican's wartime archives open to researchers March 2, it will be just the start of what should be a long, slow process of studying, analyzing and publishing findings, said the Vatican's archivist and librarian. "We have to have the patience
In the story of the Church, the thirteenth century is an epoch chapter. The Roman Catholic Church was at the center of life; a unity developed among God’s people that encompassed not only religion but culture, laws and society in general. The
The loss of the papal states and the declaration of Rome as the capital of a united Italy 150 years ago was a "providential" event that changed the city and the church, Pope Francis said. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state,
On January 27, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the liberation of the survivors of Auschwitz, the United Nations hosted their first ever event dedicated to “Remembering the Holocaust: The Documented Efforts of the Catholic Church to Save Lives.” The event, which took place
Monsignor Owen Campion writes that when slavery was legal in the United States, many Americans — possibly most Americans — accepted it, and, sadly, the Church rolled with the tide, as too few Church leaders denounced the evils of slavery. What can
Most often we associate the term “Crusades” with an effort by the European Christians of the Middle Ages to take back the Holy Land, specifically Jerusalem, from the Muslims. Indeed, there were Crusades mounted for that reason. Popes from the 11th to
In Catholic Church history, one of the most famous controversies, and most famous crises between Church and state, between pope and king, took place in the early 13th century. The antagonists were Pope Innocent III and King John of England. Pope Innocent
Everyone passing away leaves behind material traces of their life. The existence of a Jewish man, called Jesus of Nazareth, is supported by strong historical evidence. The question therefore is raised: Are the various artifacts associated with his life truly authentic? Apart
Recently, Christians have heard much about the split in the Eastern Orthodox Church, between the church in Istanbul (Constantinople) and the church in Moscow. In October 2018, the patriarch of Constantinople agreed to the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — independent