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In OTL, Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England was said to have miscarried three times at the very least, and the only surviving legitimate children Charles ever had were with his many mistresses. Thus after his death, Charles's younger brother, James Stuart, Duke of York succeeded him...

Inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cl%C3%A9ment Furious that Anne Boleyn's execution has not led to reconciliation with Rome, a fanatical Catholic/monk dispossessed by the dissolution of the monasteries(maybe John Hallam, who took part in the 1537 Bigod's Rebellion) determines...

Reading into the history of Maryland, I find the original purpose of the colony quite interesting, as it was meant to be a haven for Catholics and religious toleration. In OTL this did not last long and the colony was quickly overtaken by various protestant groups. This I believe was in part due...

My university library was giving away some old books and I managed to get some for myself. One book is titled "Before the Armada" written by R. B. Wernham and published in 1966. It was a detailed account of English foreign policy in the Tudor period. finished reading that some time ago and...

Your challenge is to create a 4th major Abrahamic religion, with at least as many adherants as Judaism. You can uplift a group like the Druze, or take an extinct movement and wank them, or push a fringe denomination into becoming its own religion - regardless of your method, there needs to be...

As part of a TL on the ascension of Gaston of France to the throne after the death of Louis XIII in 1630, causing Richelieu's fall from power, I would like to know what would be the consequences on the Thirty Years' War? The Cardinal brought France into the war in 1635 alongside Sweden, already...

The Pentarchy was once a structure of five Christian churches in Rome, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Constantinople that governed the faith. But it fell apart after the Muslim invasions and the Catholic-Orthodox Schism. However if the Vatican is ambitious enough or if certain...

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...

I don't know if it could have been possible but if miraculously the Jesuit missions had managed to convert the qing imperial family And most Chinese generals And some very important people from the merchant class of china. what would change with a china pro-catholic(spain and Portugal) Influence...

What if the Huguenots had won the French Wars of Religion? How do you picture France and the world from those times onward?

WI the Nordic countries (primarily Denmark, Norway, ans Sweden) remain Catholic instead of going Protestant? What PoD would be required for this? What kind of effects would them remaining Catholic have on the rest of Europe, especially the Thirty Years War and the Protestant Reformation?

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...

So I work at a catholic school in Saint Augustine, and I'm trying to explain to my students why Saint Luther is so important. He did reform catholicism and we still use so many of his tenants such as married priests and the common translation of the bible. But I'm curious what would happen if...

How do you think European (and later American) history could have progressed if Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other Reformers would have been butterflied away? When encountering these debates on online forums, I've read pretty mixed-bag responses. A Catholic for example told me, that a Moon...

In China, European Catholic Monks who arrived were huge "weeaboos" to use a modern term. They started dressing like Chinese sages, were the first Westerners to master the Chinese language and writing system, started eating Chinese food, reading Chinese literature, and even tried to modify...

WI affordable electronic television was invented by a friar in the Vatican in the 1930s, and the Catholic Church decides to keep the patent, becoming the only legal producer, seller, and broadcaster in the world, and uses the new medium for the benefit of their flock? After WW2, television...

1453- The Grand Duchy of Muscovy is facing a crisis. With the death of Vasily II it has led to his son Ivan III taking power at just 13 years old. However Vasily's death coincided with the fall of constantinople making Muscovy the new bastion of Orthodoxy. Not all was bad however as the mongol...

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 the Roman Papacy. Later when the Protestant Reformation happens, the Catholic world just shatters, and New Antipopes...

Tradition, Family and Proprierty is a international catholic organization that had his peak in the 1960s, being active world wide and is still alive alltough it was moved to the shadows. In Brazil it was organized in the 1960s and served as one of the main mccarthyists organizations in Brazil...

Hey all, looking back I'm glad my first thread on this topic went well. Anyways, now I'll ask how a 'No Islam scenario would affect Africa', immensely I imagine. For a POD, once again Mohammed either never begins his teachings, or he just dies early. Whatever works. So here are some of my...