A group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution were canonised by Pope ...

Since our nation's founding, American Catholics have confronted the question of whether one can be a faithful Catholic and a devoted citizen of the United States.

The French Revolution’s Civil Constitution of the Clergy had outlawed religious life, and the Carmelites of Compiègne were expelled from their monastery in 1792. Despite being forced into ...

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras ...

It is a surprising coda to the broadly anticlerical French Revolution—not to mention seemingly dissonant with contemporary ...

Germany, France and the UK are meeting in Geneva to discuss the future of Iran's nuclear program. How can they push Iran to ...

Reading sweeping grand-historical narratives is necessary as post-liberal, post-democratic politics come to the fore.

This popular holiday tune – known for its lords a-leaping and french hens – has many variations ... members of the lower clergy, would preside over the the day's observances and celebrate ...

The earliest example of this can found with the French revolutionaries ... and minerals. In revolutionary France, especially during the years of the Terror, from 1793 to 1794, “most of the clergy [was ...