Quite a lot has been written about whether religion as a whole has brought good things to history, culture and modernity.

While Douthat and I disagree on many things, we can both affirm that there is something "more" to our lives and the universe ...

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the face of Saint Teresa of Jesus, one of the most influential figures of Spanish ...

My writings have recently been those of a GAD (Gloom and Doom) Fly. It’s time to smell the rose of hope for peace and ...

in contrast to the tyranny of Catholic Spain of the Inquisition, with whom they were at war. “The Dutch populace, like the Jews of the Esther story, were underdogs against this mighty empire ...

During the period of Portuguese control over Cochin, the practice of effigy burning was persecuted by the Catholic inquisition because the Portuguese saw a similarity between the effigy and the ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

that the dark period of the Spanish inquisition started in 1478, with the blessings of the pope. Muslims and Jews were the main targets and anyone labelled by the Catholic Church as ‘heretics’.

Wilde talks about himself as being a Catholic who does not believe ... auto-da-fé—the burning of a heretic by the Spanish Inquisition. How do you find new ways to approach these ancient ...

Throughout the years of the Spanish Inquisition, religious institutions ... She grew up in the Orthodox Church and attended Catholic school. Similarly, Mary, who runs a social media account ...