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Steve Weidenkopf

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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

The Catholic 'Great Awakening' 10/05/2023
The Controversy of Christian Dating 08/02/2023
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Don't Pine for 'the Good Old Days' 07/03/2023
The Real Story of the Conquistadors 02/17/2023
When the Pope Looked Like a King 09/20/2022
The Protestants Who Came Before the Protestants 08/26/2022
The "Game of Thrones" History of the Papacy 01/26/2022
How to Break the Tyranny of the Present 01/14/2022
Foundation: Hot New Show, Old Anti-Catholic Trope 01/07/2022
A Christmas Baptism of the Winter Solstice? 12/21/2021
Meet the Inquisitor 12/07/2021
The Knight Who Made Louis IX a Saint 11/12/2021
Pray to These 4 Obscure Saints and Holy Hopefuls on All Saints' Day 11/01/2021
Columbus: Separating Myth from Fact 10/11/2021
The Great Jihadist Confronts the Leper King 10/05/2021
Catholics Build the Best Cathedrals 09/16/2021
Matilda of Tuscany, the Warrior-Countess 09/02/2021
Godfrey de Bouillon, Jerusalem's Commando-King 08/23/2021
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
The Council of Clermont: Beginning of the Crusades 11/26/2019
The Sacred Ground of the North American Martyrs 10/17/2019
Mary Saves Christendom—Again 09/11/2019
When the Knights Defeated the Ottomans at Malta 09/10/2019
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
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
Leo and Luther—The Real Story of the Pope and the Heretic 06/19/2017
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