St. Dominic Receives the Rosary” (photo: Public Domain) Modern scholars may question St. Dominic’s role in the Rosary, but historical evidence offers a compelling case. Shaun McAfee, January 22, 2025 ...

While perhaps more historically accurate, the new name would erase the link with the Cathars - the persecuted religious sect which sprung up in France in the 13th century - a fact that has angered ...

The history of Christianity has always been filled with struggle. When the Middle Ages brought a rise in devoted, unique Christian teachings, the Church responded by declaring them heretics. And the ...

In 1209, Pope Innocent III launched a crusade not against Muslims in the Holy Land, but against fellow Christians in southern France. The Cathars, or Albigensians, were dualist heretics who rejected ...

The Cathars were peaceful dualist Christians who rejected church wealth, violence, and hierarchy. They allowed women to preach and lived ascetic lives. The Catholic Church declared them heretics. In ...

As far as religious movements go, Protestantism and the European Reformation tend to get the most attention, while movements like Catharism often go unnoticed. Despite this, Catharism was one of the ...

The Cathars and Albigensian Crusade: When the Catholic Church Massacred 20,000 in a Single Day In medieval southern France, a Christian sect called the Cathars believed the physical world was evil, ...

France’s great Cathar castles are in the running for World Heritage status, but their medieval history isn’t quite what it seems Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening Post for a ...

Montségur Castle, perched high in the Pyrenees, became the last refuge of the Cathars, a medieval dualist sect which rejected meat and procreative sex and believed in a spiritual love detached from ...

The Cathars are one of the most intriguing—and misunderstood—religious movements in medieval history. They flourished primarily in Southern France between the 12th and 14th centuries and attracted ...

Sunny, out-of-the-way Languedoc, in southwest France, is overlooked by many. Stretching from the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees, it shares a balmy climate, winter wind, grapevines, and the sea with the ...