By Makena Wisniewski

Indeed, history does not achieve its aim in the death statistics of the concentration camps. Instead, Elie Wiesel’s witness as an ordinary man who endured the worst of hell, has contributed more to history than a textbook ever could.

By Magdalena Kyne

While history looks to the past to learn about the present, covenantal history contextualizes the present in light of the Lord of History, a Savior who keeps his promises.

By Makena Wisniewski

Bernard of Clairvaux not only reformed the papacy and influenced the calling of the Second Crusade, but inspired all people of faith that the Catholic Church, in its superiority and right rule over the Holy Roman Empire, was worth fighting for.

By Makena Wisniewski

With an influx of Jews in Russia, Russian diplomats scrambled to incorporate them into Russian life. However, the integration proved impossible, leading to the degradation of the Jews within Russian society, and thus, the Pale of Settlement that proceeded consequently. 

By Magdalena Kyne

The place of pain and, at best, patient endurance becomes a place of encounter with Love itself, the Word far surpassing the words even of the great Marcus Aurelius.