Category: History - European
Influence of the Reformation-- Jansenism-- The Abbey of Port Royal-- Quesnel-- The Bull "Unigenitus"-- Destructive Influence of Jansenism-- Not Quite Extinguished Even Yet-- Quietism-- Molinos and Madame Guyon-- Louis XIV. and Gallicanism-- The Gallican Liberties-- Resistance...
Never did the shadows of night gather with more sorrow and hopelessness around the afflicted Spouse of Christ, than on that sad August 29, 1799, when, in the prison house of Val...
14. CHAPTER V.Looking into the history of the times just preceding the Kulturkampf, and the nature of the events transpiring during its progress, among the causes may be enumerated the follow...
16. CHAPTER VII.The twentieth century dawned with black and lowering skies, presage of storms to come. Even while the hymns of thanksgiving were echoing among the vaulted roofs of cathedral and...
10. CHAPTER I.The history of Christ's Church on earth has ever been a story of storm and stress. The faithful heart of today mourns in discouragement over the evils that afflict the Church in...
11. CHAPTER II.All the various forces indicated in the preceding chapter came together in one appalling union towards the year 1789, forming a veritable cauldron seething with malign influence...
18. CHAPTER IX.Portugal has never yet recovered from the disasters which crushed it at the end of the sixteenth century. At the end of the eighteenth it was already in a state of decadence, wh...
17. CHAPTER VIII.Although the Catholic faith has always been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Spanish people, yet during the nineteenth century the anti-Christian spirit contrived at times to...
15. CHAPTER VI.The Second Empire, especially during its last ten years, had proven itself no less hostile and treacherous to the Church than had many of its predecessors. This was evident most...
9. CHAPTER IX.Old Glories of Portugal-- Pombal the Infamous-- Portugal and Napoleon-- English Influence-- Dom Pedro-- Maria da Gloria and Dom Miguel-- The Revolution of 1833-- The Present Tim...
13. CHAPTER IV.Pius VII. re-entered his capital May 24, 1814. In the meantime the princes of Europe had remade the map of Europe; but in spite of all hopes of permanent peace, their efforts on...
3. CHAPTER III.State of France at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century-- The Conclave of Venice-- Cardinal Chiaramonti Elected Pope Pius VII.-- Sketch of His Life-- Cardinal Consalvi-- Napo...
7. CHAPTER VII.Beginning of the War-- The Cabinet of Freemasons-- Waldeck-Rousseau-- The Associations Law of 1901-- Its Hypocritical Character-- Suppression of the Congregations-- Combes-- The...
1. CHAPTER I.Influence of the Reformation-- Jansenism-- The Abbey of Port Royal-- Quesnel-- The Bull "Unigenitus"-- Destructive Influence of Jansenism-- Not Quite Extinguished Even Yet-- Qui...
4. CHAPTER IV.The Holy Alliance-- The Carbonari-- Mazzini and Young Italy-- Hostile Congresses-- Accession of Pope Pius IX.-- Generous Dispositions of the Holy Father-- Eighteen Hundred and F...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Accession of Ferdinand VII.-- Apostolics and Liberals-- Disaffection of Ferdinand-- Carlist War-- Hatred of the Jesuits-- Atrocities of Espartero-- The Pope Protests-- Papal Enc...
2. CHAPTER II.Immediate Causes-- The States General-- Confiscation of Church Property-- Persecution of Religious Orders-- The Civil Constitution-- Sorrow of Pope Pius VI.-- His Condemnation o...
5. CHAPTER V.(1) The Causes-- The Liberalism of the Rationalists-- The Liberalism of Pseudo-Catholics-- Günther-- Frohschammer-- Doellinger-- The Desire for Protestant Ascendancy-- The Hatre...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Franco-Prussian War-- The Commune of 1870-- Its Victims-- Establishment of Third Republic-- Beginning of the War on the Church-- Gambetta-- Paul Bert-- Jules Ferry-- War on...