Well, French Month is over already! There was much more I hoped to get through that I never had time for - some stuff about French consumer ...

The Mandylion was perhaps one of the most revered relics of Christendom, and like many other relics, it made its way to France during the Mi...

Jansenists and Jesuits dispute as an angel carrying the bull Unigenitus flies overhead  Finally, we come to the conclusion of this tan...

  The Jansenist nuns of Port-Royal are forcibly removed by agents of Louis XIV Last time we dug into the origins of the Jansenist controv...

What is Jansenism? One cannot discuss the history of the Catholic Church in France without mentioning this heresy, which rent the French c...

Sorry to disrupt the flow of French month with a non-France related post, but this is important as it concerns the website edition of this b...

Are you utterly sick of books, movies and even quasi-historical works which make the unfounded assertion that in the old days the Catholic ...

St. Joan of Arc is undoubtedly one of my favorite saints of all time. The more I study her, the more I am convinced that her story is on...

It sometimes happens in the history of the Church that when doctrine and spirituality become skewered by errant teachings, or when cateches...

A political cartoon from 1904 depicts the Masonic octopus strangling Catholic royalists The entire month on this blog is dedicated to Franc...

The following is account of an alleged "Eucharistic Miracle" at Medjurgorje. This story appeared in the May-June 1993 Caritas new...

Finally we get to the last installment in this series and come to our happy ending. Last time we looked at how our pastor introduced som...