The Life of Baldwin the Leper King

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Modern society obsessively avoids suffering, risk and danger. It secures everything with seatbelts and safety rails, air conditions the summer heat, prints warnings on coffee cups and advises that that safety glasses should be used while working with hammers. Certainly such precautions have prevented misfortune. However, since heroism and excellence are born from confronting rather … Read more

Nearly 20,000 Rosary Rallies Blanket America and the World on Saturday

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Tens of thousands of rosaries covered the United States as Catholics nationwide proclaimed: “God is the only solution for our times.” Hundreds of thousands of prayer warriors made a public stand from one side of America to the other with a banner stating “Praying the Rosary for America: As human efforts fail to solve America’s … Read more

Why the Proper Observance of Memorial Day is Waning

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Memorial Day is here, and many see it as little more than the unofficial beginning of summer. The holiday was once marked by religious services, parades, and speeches nationwide. Now, however, some people do not even know what we are supposed to be remembering. That is why its proper observance is waning. Free Book: Return … Read more

The Power of Three Simple Words: We Want God

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Modern political discourse is in a sad state today. Ideas are now crafted in sound bites, tweets and slogans to appeal to a world absorbed by the frenetic intemperance of instant messaging. Speech has become dominated by empty rhetoric and posturing. Expressing oneself is complicated by political correctness that suppresses common sense and objective truth. … Read more

Jerusalem is conquered in the First Crusade

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It was decided that the assault should begin during the night of 13-14 July…The first task of the assailants was to bring their wooden castles right up to the walls…All night long and during the day of the 14th the Crusaders concentrated on their task, suffering heavily from the stones and the liquid fire of … Read more

Military Orders

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Including under this term every kind of brotherhood of knights, secular as well as religious, historians of the military orders have enumerated as many as a hundred, even after eliminating the apocryphal and stillborn. This great number is explained by the eagerness with which the Middle Ages welcomed an institution so thoroughly corresponding to the … Read more