Catholic History

History involving the Catholic church and religion.

The Founding of Christendom (A History of Christendom, Vol. 1)
Puritan's Empire
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler
Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish Without Rome
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
The History of Black Catholics in the United States
Our Lady of Guadalupe: And the Conquest of Darkness
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
Confessions
A Brief History of Vatican II
Trent: What Happened at the Council
Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church
Studies on the Early Papacy
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à KempisCatechism of the Catholic Church by Catholic ChurchThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisStory of a Soul by Thérèse of LisieuxConfessions by Augustine of Hippo
Books for Catholics
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Charles A. Coulombe
But one item was left behind in Kansas, to be discovered in 1886: a Spanish sword from Coronado's expedition, inscribed with the name of its owner, Juan Gallegos, and on the blade these words: "Do not draw me without right. Do not sheath me without honor." Here at once is summed up the essential chivalry of the Conquistadors. ...more
Charles A. Coulombe, Puritan's Empire

Abhijit Naskar
No religion is innocent, Islam has its skeletons, Hinduism has its skeletons, Judaism has a countryful, even Buddhism has a few, but compared to all the skeletons of all the organized religions, the Catholic church is built with human bones as framework, and corpses as edifice, and a huge chunk of them belonged to children.
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

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