catholic church

For some context, the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec was established in 1658, with François de Laval as its first bishop. After the conquest of Quebec by Britain during the Seven Years' War, the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec was allowed to continue, and was later permitted to collect...

Supposing that in order to return some of the old status quo a proposal is made to restore some of the old Ecclesiastical States in Germany that were part of the old HRE. What would be the effects of these states still being a part of Germany? How would social and religious dynamics work? How...

When Ireland was admitted as a full member of the United Kingdom in 1800-1801, prime minister William Pitt the Younger wanted this to be combined with a law ensuring Catholic emancipation. The objective of this was to assuage any concerns that London would automatically side against Irish...

WI for whatever reason, the Scottish reformation fails to take hold, and Scotland remains overwhelmingly Catholic. How does this affect relations with England. Is Mary, QoS still deposed in favour of James VI? I assume that James cannot take the English throne in 1603 if he's still Catholic, but...

Kirchenkampf is basically the situation that Christian churches found themselves in under Nazi rule. Hitler wanted to nazify the whole country in all aspects of society and the churches were one of the very few institutions that were capable of resisting, which naturally caused tension and...

In 897 the corpse of Pope Formosus was exhumed by Pope Stephen VI and put on trial for crimes that Formosus supposedly committed as a bishop and in gaining the Papacy in the first place. Now in RL this whole fiasco had Stephen branded insane, turned the city of Rome against him and he was...

I would like to explore the possibility of an openly pro-Axis/pro-Nazi/pro-fascist Pope during WW2. I tried to brainstorm about who could become this Pope. It would have to be some clergyman with preexisting radical right-wing beliefs that would support these forces once he gets elected by the...

After the 1988, rather than surprisingly accepting it as otl, Pinochet refuses to step down and starts a white terror campaign to cement his rule and wipe out further opposition. The Catholic Church goes from criticizing the dictatorship to actively opposing it and does everything short of...

Obviously to get there we'd need several different pods before hand (socialists don't try to secularize, Mussolini never takes power, the Papacy still controls Rome, etc), but assuming that all the necessary events were to have happened, were there any candidates for Pope in the late 1930's who...

So revisiting an idea here -- supposing, with a PoD in the Revolutionary or Napoleonic Era (and trying not to get bogged down in the particulars of the PoD), that the re-establishment of “state” in Central Italy ruled by the Pope does not happen. In other words, the Restored Papal States...

With a pod around 1860, was there any way for the Catholic church to rather than frequently supporting authoritarian, reactionary, and fascist regimes, was more universally consistent of protecting unions and labor rights? Were there any possible popes or movements that supported a...

The Church of England was never really taken seriously during its brief existence under Henry the Eigth. Even many elites and some bishops saw it as just a "Church of Political Punditry", and not helping matters is that to hear most modern historians put it, Henry simply just saw it as a quick...

During the 19th century, the Church and the Liberals were constantly at odds with each other with little room for compromise, eventually ending with France becoming a fully secular state during the third republic. Starting around say 1860, was there any possibility for the church to liberalize...

If Fascist Italy was neutral during WW2 and remained in a firm control of Italy to at least 1965. What effects would that have on the Vatican II Council that liberalized the Roman Catholic Church? Would Vatican II even happen at all?

Based off an old thread I did a year ago, but didn't want to do thread necromancy, and also an updated religious map What if, a string of Popes in Rome that are so corrupt, so incompetent, and does something so stupid (Like maybe making the Roman Papacy hereditary) that they shatter the view of...

Imagine that if either Catherine had given Henry VIII a son that reaches maturity, or Arthur Tudor survives his illness and does the same, or some other variant. Basically, no need for anyone to break with Rome for over divorce, confiscate church land, appoint their own bishops, invite...

In our world Jane Seymour died a few days after giving birth to King Henry VIII's only son, the future Edward VI? But what if she had survived? Since she was Catholic might she push for a reconciliation with the Catholic Church? Also will she and Henry VIII have more children? I am aware of this...

Okay, so this is sort of a weird fucking question to ask, but I was playing Crusader Kings 3 as Waldensians in Iberia (I'm not good, I didn't even come close to taking anything over), and I sort of started wondering something If this were real life and not a game with a set of programmed but...

The Concordat of Bologna, signed in 1516, was a cornerstone of French church policy prior to the Revolution. The French monarchy was able to negotiate for autonomy within its own territory on ecclesiastical issues such as tithing and the right of French church officials to appeal to Rome, while...

The Catholic Pope is among the best-known and most influential leaders of the modern religious landscape. As the leader of the Catholic Church, the billion souls that follow it, and the only elective non-hereditary absolute monarchy in the world, the city-state of Vatican City, the Pope wields...