History

Art in the service of Faith

BY Liam Gibson

In a chapel at the north end of the church of Santa Maria della Vita in Bologna, stand seven life-sized…

The legacy of Revolution

by Liam GibsonAlthough celebrated on 14 July, the French Revolution began in June — the month of the Sacred Heart…

Presentation of The Church in the tempests: the first millennium of the history of the Church

by Roberto de MatteiOn Thursday 9 June 2022, at the Brompton Oratory in London, Prof de Mattei presented the following…

States must conserve the familial type

BY Mgr Henri Delassus

This is the second in a series of twenty articles, drawn from Mgr Delassus’s two-volume work, The Problem of the…

How states are formed

BY Mgr Henri Delassus

The apostolate of Mgr Henri Delassus (1836–1921) in the diocese of Lille is typical of the faithful service of the…

Dominus flevit: the destruction of Jerusalem

by Roberto de MatteiIt is Palm Sunday. Jesus weeps on the Mount of Olives, where stands today the church of…

Kiev, the city of Saint Olga

by Cristina SiccardiThe history of Russia and the history of Ukraine not only have always been intertwined, but Russia’s origins…

Modernists of yesterday and today

by Roberto de MatteiAt present, I am rereading a beautiful novel, Le Démon de midi by Paul Bourget, who lived between 1852…

Vatican II “Draft of a Dogmatic Constitution on Chastity, Marriage, the Family and Virginity”: a schema that should have never been rejected (Part III)

by Maria MadiseThe first part of this article considered how at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, a schema “On…

Vatican II “Draft of a Dogmatic Constitution on Chastity, Marriage, the Family and Virginity”: a schema that should have never been rejected (Part I)

by Maria MadiseAddressing Voice of the Family’s Rome Life Forum, shortly before his death in 2017, Carlo Cardinal Caffarra, read…

The Church and epidemics in history

by Prof. Roberto de MatteiThe following talk was given at Voice of the Family’s conference “Health of the sick and…

Fatima: Theology of History

by Fr Serafino M. LanzettaThe Fatima-event marked the start of a path of renewal for the whole of the Church:…