Comments for Stark Truths at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 13 out of 13 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 23:20:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3684 Dear Maggie, Prof. Madden also has a good audio course on CD covering the whole history of inquisitions, called "Heaven or Heresy: A History of the Inquisition." Produced by modernscholar dot com, it's probably available at your local library. - Arthur Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:26:11 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3679 Dear Brad, yes Chivalry is a fair and noble thing. I also just finished reading Rodney Stark's God's Battalions and was deeply impressed on many levels not the least of which that it was written by a former Lutheran academic and acknowledged agnostic. Still waters run deep; it is reminiscent of the great William Thomas Walsh and the Last Crusade and Warren Carroll and the longest war of reconquest in history - Spain 770 years - Joseph Blain Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:22:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3678 A brilliant piece!!! Also, Prof Thomas Madden has made a valuable contribution to much of Church History most especially the Crusades, Inquisition, and the Eastern Christian Empire. As luck would have it, Reine Pernoud's "The Crusades" is available in English which further corrects the narrative from the Enlightenment. - Timothy O'Donnell Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:29:32 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3677 I’m with you, Brad. Marian chivalry, of course, need not be violent. It is saying YES like Our Lady in all kinds of circumstances, but the chivalric code is a yearning, IMO, not for a reason to whack and crack skulls, but to stand firm as a Pope's man practicing the theological virtues. And, as per St. Thomas, legitimate defense of what needs our protection. Cheers - Jeff Hendrix Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:13:05 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3676 Dear Jospeh: If those who believe that "Love they neighbor" is a blanket command to never fight had their way Christianity would be, at best, an underground sect. If Christians had not answered the call of Pope St. Pius V to defend Christendom at Lepanto we would all be Muslims now. Our Lord told Peter to put his sword in his scabbard, not to throw it away. - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:21:11 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3674 I wish a good historian would write, now, about whether the Inquisition was a response to the Islamic occupation and the subsequent Reconquest of Spain and the Mediterranean regions. It is always treated in isolation from the centuries that preceded it. One is always left to wonder why it came about. Thank you for this article. - Maggie Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:08:55 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3672 The crusader spirit is lacking today, and I’m unashamed to be enthusiastic about this history. That said, I endorse Pope Gregory VII’s letter to the Muslim Ruler of Bijaya: “God, who wishes that all should be saved … approves of nothing in us so much as that after loving him one should love his fellow, and that what one does not want done to oneself one should not do to others. [W]e owe this charity to ourselves... [W]e...confess one God, admittedly in a different way and daily...venerate him…” - crazylikeknoxes Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:22:05 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3673 Just what we need, another "just war." Whatever happened to ="Love thy enemy"? - Joseph Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:15:39 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3670 It's only the beginning, my friend! - Willie Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:51:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3668 Stark is not alone in in the view that the Crusades were primarily a defensive endeavor. Professor Thomas Madden, crusade specialist, has convincingly pointed this out in lectures, TV appearances, and print. See his "The New Concise History of the Crusades." - Arthur Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:30:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3669 They have attacked! They are attacking! - Richard A Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:08:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3667 Pray for me also.I am nostalgic for the Crusades. Despite the feel good, get along with everyone mentality of the the present regime, We are in a battle for the soul of Christianity. Those who would compare the Crusades with Islamic jihad would be wise to recall that the Crusades were a response to Islamic aggression. Then we seemed to have something to fight for. Those who think that the Infidel is not out to obliterate Christianity are naive. I wonder what would happen today if Islam attacked? - Willie Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:40:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/stark-truths.html#comment-3666 Thank you, Brad. You just gave me an idea for a Christmas gift! - William H. Phelan Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:21:05 +0100