Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III

Among the events of history, as the historic mind would ponder them, or the judgments of God, as the Christian mind would interpret them, there are none greater than the two whi...

The Sixth General Council had been held in 680, and on the union of the East and West the long and obstinate Monothelite heresy had seemed to be extinguished with all the author...

The seizure of Pope St. Martin in his Lateran Church by the exarch of Ravenna, Kalliopas, under order from the Emperor Constans II., his secret deportation to Constantinople, hi...

We left the emperor Heraclius carrying back the true Cross in triumph to Jerusalem from its captivity under the Persian fire-worshipper, whose empire he had wounded to death. Th...

We are now come to the greatest of contrasts and oppositions in human history—to the Church of Christ, the foundress of nations, and to Islam, her counterfeit and opponent; to t...

In the mean time Pope Theodorus, having during the seven years of his pontificate maintained the faith against the aggression of the Byzantine emperor and patriarch with the sam...

I propose to give a continuous review of the Roman pontiff’s position in the city of Peter from the plundering of imperial Rome by the Vandal Genseric in 455 to the siege of pap...

I have hitherto conducted the history of the Throne of the Fisherman built by the Carpenter’s Son in unbroken succession from St. Peter to St. Gregory the Great. It is a period...

The first land possession(214) of the Roman See appears to have been the Cæsarean palace of the Lateran, the gift to it of the emperor Constantine, in gratitude to God for havin...

This volume is strictly in continuance of the two which it follows—“The Throne of the Fisherman built by the Carpenter’s Son,” and “The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations...