[EBH]

As I read the horrors of the day, the Crusades came to mind and how history has been rewritten...

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The old Roman Empire, known to modern historians as the Byzantine Empire, was reduced to little more than Greece. In desperation, the emperor in Constantinople sent word to the Christians of western Europe asking them to aid their brothers and sisters in the East.

That is what gave birth to the Crusades. They were not the brainchild of an ambitious pope or rapacious knights but a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense.

Well worth a read. I think I heard him on Catholic Answers recently.

I wonder if reporters call him anymore.

[STYRO]

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