The Third Secret of Fátima Revealed (1917) It was on this date, July 13, 1917, that the Third Secret of Fátima was revealed by the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in a rural village north of Lisbon. At least, that is how Lucia dos Santos remembered it. But by this time she had been […]

There are in this country... a certain proportion of restless and turbulent spirits who must always have something to quarrel about with their neighbors. These people are the authors of religious revivals.

"Calvin was ... as nearly like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted." - Robert Ingersoll

The life of the Báb gives us an interesting illustration of how miracles and legends can attach themselves to recent historical figures.

It is said that Hus's doctrinal divergences with the Church were socially harmful, but that is laughable given the corruption against which he had been protesting.

If the Salvation Army is to continue its "warfare against evil," it might reflect that over a century of success was achieved without taxpayer-tainted funds.

Garibaldi wrote two years before his death and bluntly said, "Dear friends — Man created God, not God Man. Yours ever, Garibaldi."

His one achievement was to drive out of the Church what was left of Catholic scholarship.

Catholics were compelled to accept as genuine history the childish and derivative stories of the Creation, the Garden of Eden, the Fall, the Flood, and the confusion of languages at Babel.

Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul Foundation of the Papacy It is on this day, June 29, that the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feasts of Sts. Peter and Paul. According to tradition outside the church, and required by faith within the church, during the reign of Emperor Nero, Peter was arrested and executed […]