Until the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 1995 bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United States. It remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the country’s history.
History
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
How the Catholic Church adapted during the Black Plague
A conversation with historian Winston Black on plague, medicine and religion in the Middle Ages
Posted inFaith, News
Sisters’ work during 1918 flu epidemic seen as model for crisis today
Throughout the United States, thousands of women religious took on nursing duties in hospitals or clinics and went into private homes to offer food, medicine, comfort and even housecleaning to families affected by the Spanish flu.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
From 1918: Army Chaplains and the Epidemic
Catholic chaplains fighting a different battle in World War I: the fight against Spanish influenza
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: How the fall of Rome led to the modern world
Walter Scheidel argues in “Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity,” that out of the Roman Empire’s ashes rose modernity.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
What we can learn from the women deacons of the early Eastern Christian church
The Very Rev. Mark Morozowich on the role of women deacons in the early Eastern church and how historical theology shapes our discussion on the question of women deacons now.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
The story behind the lost neighborhood where ‘West Side Story’ is set
The setting of “West Side Story” is San Juan Hill, the nickname of the Lincoln Square area of Upper West Side of Manhattan—an area bulldozed and redeveloped into the Lincoln Center performing arts complex in the early 1960s.
Posted inFaith, News
Vatican sees intense interest in opening of Pius XII archive
Some Jewish groups and historians have said Pius, who was pope from 1939-1958, stayed silent during the Holocaust and didn’t do enough to save lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
There’s something about Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene’s actual history, as Margaret Arnold tells us, is much richer than we think. The tradition’s appropriation of Mary Magdalene is much more intricate and complex—as the saint herself is complex.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A wild war between zoos
J. W. Mohnhaupt’s first book, The Zookeepers’ War, is an earnest plunge into the extraordinary history behind Berlin’s competing zoos during the Cold War.