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More like hundreds of thousands directly from the Crusades and half of them Crusaders. That is also ignoring the Ottoman invasions of Europe up to the sieges of Constantinople and Vienna and resultin… (View Post)

Most of the wars of conquest were actually invasions of England or France or amongst princely states for power and territory which would have happened anyway without the church. Yes it backed the cru… (View Post)

What a load of crap, nationalism, civil wars, Communism, Nazism, militant Islam, have done far worse. Most of our oldest universities, cathedrals and churches, many of our schools, hospitals, chariti… (View Post)

There hasn't been an Italian Pope this century, Francis was Argentine, Benedict was German, John Paul was Polish. Closest they got was Francis' Italian ancestry (View Post)

“Francis accepted Meloni’s history, her self-portrayal as an underdog,” said Prof Alberto Melloni, a church historian at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia and the Unesco chair on religious plura… (View Post)