Steve Weidenkopf is a lecturer of Church History at the Christendom College Graduate School of Theology and the author of The Glory of the Crusades and The Real Story of Catholic History, from Catholic Answers Press. He is also the creator and author of Epic: A Journey through Church History, an adult faith-formation program on the 2,000-year history of the Church.
More by Steve Weidenkopf
Matilda of Tuscany, the Warrior-Countess 09/02/2021
Sports Teams Should Keep Their Crusaders 08/12/2021
Church and State: A History of Conflict 11/03/2020
The Real Story of King St. Louis IX 07/10/2020
The Real Story of St. Junípero Serra 07/01/2020
The Saintly Queen Who Changed History 06/14/2020
The Fall of Constantinople 05/28/2020
Excommunicating the Queen 04/27/2020
Lessons From the Black Death 03/18/2020
The History of the Council of Trent 12/04/2019
Mary Saves Christendom—Again 09/11/2019
The Sack of Rome 08/22/2019
The Day the Jesuits Were Suppressed 07/21/2019
The Wealth of the Church 07/08/2019
Fr. Ignatius Maternowski: D-Day Chaplain 06/04/2019
The Story of the Crown of Thorns 04/17/2019
The Saint Who Reformed Priestly Purity 02/20/2019
Mary, a Queen of Another Kind 01/11/2019
Did the Church Destroy Civilization? 06/19/2018
The Last Papal Martyr 04/13/2018
The Saint Who Reformed Priestly Purity 02/21/2018
The Real Story of Christ's Warrior-Monks 01/08/2018
Did the Church Chain Up the Bible? 12/05/2017
Bl. Miguel Pro: Anti-Fascist Martyr 11/22/2017
Columbus: the Real Story 10/09/2017
Reformers or Revolutionaries? 09/26/2017
Did the Church Ever Support Slavery? 09/18/2017
The Real Story of the First Crusade 08/02/2017
How the English Cinched the Split 08/01/2017
ISIS Flogs the Crusades Myth 11/18/2015
The Real Story of the Children's Crusade 09/02/2015
The "Honey-Sweet" Doctor 08/18/2015
The Massacre of Jerusalem 07/31/2015
Why the Crusaders Went 12/22/2014
Were the Crusades Just Wars? 11/04/2014
Why the Crusades Were "Glorious" 10/22/2014
The Saintly Crusader-King 08/25/2014
The Antipope Who Became a Saint 08/13/2014
Conquest, Desecration, and Phony History 07/25/2014
St. Boniface and the Christmas Tree 06/05/2014
What Makes a Pope "Great?" 05/20/2014
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