Should the council pursue a goal of uniting with protestants or seeking a coherent body of doctrines and practices?Continuing The Council of Trent
Reform Goes Extreme
Of a sudden, as if in another gust of passion, he made a clean sweep of the obstacles which his own perversity had placed in his path, and then took
New Rulers in Charge
The pontificate of Paul IV (Gian Pietro Caraffa, May, 1555-August, 1559) forms one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of the
Pope Versus Holy Roman Emperor
For a time it seemed as if at Trent, too, the opposing interests would have proved irreconcilable.Continuing The Council of Trent and the
The Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation
This series has seven easy five minute installments. This first installment: Council of Trent Commences.After the Catholics had lost much of
Inquisition Goes After Protestants, Too
In the months of May and June, 1485, two acts of faith were celebrated in Saragossa, capital of Aragon, and a large number of New Christians burned
Germany Decimated
Today's installment concludes The Thirty Years War,the name of our combined selection from Samuel R. Gardiner and Charles F. Horne. The concluding
Sweden Attacks
All Europe had grown afraid of the tremendous and increasing power of the Hapsburg Emperor.Continuing The Thirty Years War,our selection from The
The Empire Strikes Back
Modern justice can find little to choose thereafter between the methods of the opposing armies.Continuing The Thirty Years War,our selection from