Today’s funeral mass for the Roman Catholic’s Church’s first “pope emeritus,” formerly Pope Benedict XVI, marks yet another first in church history—the first funeral of a pope presided over by a pope. For good reason, evangelical Protestants do not r ...
“The Queen is dead, long live the King.” The history of the world has revealed only a few lasting arguments for political legitimacy, and the most venerable of all is a hereditary monarchy. In the modern age, no monarch has been the equal of Her M ...
At first glance, the most remarkable thing about the new Soviet leader was that he seemed to have a pulse. Mikhail Gorbachev became the eighth leader of the totalitarian state on March 11, 1985. At age 54, he became general secretary of the Communist ...