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Passion Play makes a post-pandemic return in Oberammergau

by | Apr 6, 2022 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

In 1633, at the height of the Reformation, the Black Death was sweeping through Europe, including the southern German region of Bavaria. The terrified people of one small village decided to do something to protect themselves from this pandemic: The villagers vowed that every 10 years they would perform a “Passionsspiel” — a play depicting the Passion of Christ — should their hamlet be spared.

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Two Cheers for Idolatry

by | Dec 10, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

David Carlin: Deep down we have a sense that holiness is the one thing that matters most. Catholicism once did a great job of satisfying it.

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The Reformation and the Deformation of Orthodoxy

by | Dec 28, 2020 | , , , , , , | 0 |

The Reformation and the Deformation of OrthodoxyThe Facts of Life Series: The Reformation The Reformation is one of history’s great misnomers.  For it reformed almost nothing then and now.  A more apt name for that era would be the Deformation, though that name is probably too benign, given the devastating effects of this movement and its many derivations that have so infected […]

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Is a 16th century friar the ‘inventor’ of papal history?

by | Jun 10, 2020 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Many of the fundamental historical questions surrounding the Protestant Reformation remain open, and one little-known 16th century Italian scholar might be a key to finding answers. Onofrio Panvinio was an Augustinian friar who traveled across Italy to search out the documentation surrounding the history of the papacy.

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