Revised:  26 June AD 2011 Sunday Within the Octave of Corpus Christi

Church History Page What were the events that shaped the Catholic Church? How did things get to be the way they are today? Were they always this way? E-Mail: webmonk@bellsouth.net Authentic Catholic Mass, Doctrine, and Moral Teaching Don't do without them Don't accept one without the others!

    This page includes reprints from Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Bulletin, the Web-monk's M.A. thesis, some original compositions, and a link or two. In spite of the eclectic writing styles, we hope it will be useful.

• Brief History of the Old Roman Catholic Church
• Glossary of Terms in Church History

The Early Church:

• Liturgical Development: East
• Liturgical Development: West
• Papal Power in the First Millennium
• Donatist Heresy: Rigorists Deny the Power of the Sacraments

The Middle Ages:

• Medieval Transformation Gregory VII - Innocent III
• Selwyn Duke (New American) - "The Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back"
• The Papal Sword
• Boniface VIII & Philip IV - The Decline of Papal Power
• Murray N. Rothbard - "The Great Depression of the 14th Century" 
      Caused by Philip IV and other Big Government troublemakers
• Decretists: Origins of Canon Law; Possibility of a Pope-Heretic

Age of Transition:

• Pope St. Pius V' Perpetual Mandate for the Tridentine Mass
• Chart: Popes and Monarchs 1500-1800
• The Church in the Netherlands
•    Documents:
• Innocent X - Cum occasione - May 31 AD 1653
• Alexander VII - Decrees of 1656 and 1665
• Alexander VIII - Decree of the Holy Office - 1690
• Clement XI - “Vineam Domini Sabaoth,” July 16, 1705
• Clement XI - Unigenitus - 1713
• Benedict XIV - Ex omnibus - 16 October AD 1756
• van Os et al - Formulary of Utrecht - Autumn 1823

The Modern Era:

• Ninteenth Century Prelude
• Early 20th Century
• Declaration of Autonomy from the Old Catholics
• Middle Years of the 20th Century
• Pope Pius XII
• Ottaviani Intervention: By Cardinal Ratzinger's Predecessor
• Current Developments
• + John J. Greed, RIP
• Table of Apostolic Succession
• Consecration Mandate - Most Rev. John J. Humphreys
• Consecration of the Most Rev. Richard J. Euler