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5 days ago · Texas Revolution, war fought from October 1835 to April 1836 between Mexico and Texas colonists that resulted in Texas’s independence from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas (1836–45). Learn more about the Texas Revolution, including notable battles.
1 day ago · Texas, constituent state of the U.S. It became the 28th state of the union in 1845. It is bordered on the north by Oklahoma, on the northeast by Arkansas, on the east by Louisiana, on the south by Mexico, and on the west by New Mexico.
5 days ago · The Counter-Reformation (Latin: Contrareformatio), also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time.
5 days ago · How did the Mexica (better known as the Aztecs) become Christians in the sixteenth century? And how did they understand, accept and perform the new religion that came with the Spanish invaders? These are important questions because, if we can say anything about the Aztecs, we know that they were a very religious people.
1 day ago · Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity. Christianization has, for the most part, spread through missions by individual conversions but has also, in some instances, been the result of coercion from governments or ...
3 days ago · Chesterton’s eventual conversion to Catholicism, Schmude sensed, was the endpoint of a journey that began with the intellectual position set out in Orthodoxy (1908) and which would pave the way for the writer’s deepening acceptance of supernatural belief.
3 days ago · Boston College has established a Catholic Religious Archives Repository to assist in the collection, preservation, and study of institutional records and documents belonging to Catholic religious orders and congregations in the United States and Canada.
