Black Legends
Over the centuries, various black legends about the Church have arisen and have come, in the minds of many, to replace true history. These stories and legends are sometimes accepted without critical judgment.
A BBC program refutes the myth of the Holy Office as a paradigm of terror The sinister torture chambers equipped with toothed...
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Will Pizarro be blamed for everything? Among many other things, it is often said that “it was the Spaniards and the Catholic...
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The historian Franco Cardini responds to some errors. ROME, July 21, 1999 (ZENIT).- The controversy over the Crusades is not subsiding. The...
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The writer Vittorio Messori joins the debate ROME, July 27, 1999 (ZENIT).- The debate over the meaning of the Crusades is not...
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For decades various historians, especially those of Marxist orientation, have insisted on presenting the Crusades as the fruit exclusively of material factors....
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Historians offer a rereading on the ninth centenary Coinciding with the ninth centenary of the first expedition to the Holy Land (15...
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The controversy over the Crusades has not abated. The fact that this year marks the 900th anniversary of the First Crusade has...
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The Church’s Condemnation of Nazism Was Clear Some have accused the local German Church of a certain coexistence with the Nazi regime....
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Reflections on the modern attacks against Pius XII. “I have said that Pius XII gives the impression of being a man patiently...
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One of the most painful lies. “Pius XII was a holy and good man, a heroic defender and protector of the Jews...
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“I, a Jew, for Pius XII” ROME, Nov. 23, 2002 (ACI).- In an article published in the Italian newspaper L’Avvenire, the prominent...
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A book published in Italy offers previously unknown details. VATICAN CITY, 29 May 2001 (ZENIT.org).- Were Pius XII’s silences simply silences, or...
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