The Story of the Church

Phillip Campbell

No nation, institution, empire, or dynasty has helped shape the world more than the Catholic Church. Armies have marched upon one another. Kings have risen and fallen. Ideological and political movements have taken hold of entire continents. Diseases...

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Opening Credits

1/21/2023

Introduction: The History of the Church

1/21/2023

Searching for Hidden Meaning

1/21/2023

Pentecost

1/21/2023

Paul

1/21/2023

The Martyrdom of the Apostles

1/21/2023

Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition

1/21/2023

Successors of the Apostles

1/21/2023

Famous Bishops

1/21/2023

A Martyr's Death

1/21/2023

Defending the Faith

1/21/2023

Enemies of the Church

1/21/2023

St. Justin Martyr

1/21/2023

Tertullian

1/21/2023

Clement of Alexandria

1/21/2023

A Time of Hostility

1/21/2023

A New Kind of Persecution

1/21/2023

The Persecution of Valerian

1/21/2023

Attacks from Within

1/21/2023

A Most Dangerous Heresy

1/21/2023

In Defense of Orthodoxy

1/21/2023

Desert Fathers

1/21/2023

The Last Days of Paul and Anthony

1/21/2023

Leaving Behind a Legacy

1/21/2023

A Time of Growth

1/21/2023

Augustus Diocletian

1/21/2023

Emperor Constantine

1/21/2023

The Council of Nicaea

1/21/2023

The Flowering of Christian Civilization

1/21/2023

Barbarian Invasions

1/21/2023

St. Augustine: Doctor of the Church

1/21/2023

St. Benedict of Nursia

1/21/2023

The Rule of St. Benedict

1/21/2023

Spreading the Faith

1/21/2023

Irish Missionaries

1/21/2023

The Eldest Daughter of the Church

1/21/2023

More European Conversions

1/21/2023

A Divided Empire

1/21/2023

Pope St. Gregory I

1/21/2023

The Rise of Islam

1/21/2023

Persecution From the Iconoclasts

1/21/2023

The Moors Invade

1/21/2023

The Lineage of Charles Martel

1/21/2023

St. Benedict of Aniane

1/21/2023

Missionaries Who Became Saints

1/21/2023

The Carolingian Renaissance

1/21/2023

Political Popes

1/21/2023

A Bizarre Trial

1/21/2023

Otto the Great: Holy Roman Emperor

1/21/2023

Under a Secular Thumb

1/21/2023

A Monastery in Cluny

1/21/2023

Pope Gregory VII versus Henry IV

1/21/2023

The Martyrdom of Thomas Becket

1/21/2023

Tension in the West

1/21/2023

A Time of Crusade

1/21/2023

A Pilgrim's Journey

1/21/2023

The Origins of the Norbertines

1/21/2023

The Origins of the Cistercians

1/21/2023

The Origins of the Carthusians

1/21/2023

St. Hildegard

1/21/2023

Lay Saints

1/21/2023

Far From Perfect

1/21/2023

St. Francis of Assisi

1/21/2023

St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers

1/21/2023

The Carmelites

1/21/2023

A Lasting Legacy

1/21/2023

Education in the Middle Ages

1/21/2023

The Birth of the University

1/21/2023

Aristotle

1/21/2023

St. Thomas Aquinas

1/21/2023

The Fourth Lateran Council

1/21/2023

Maintaining Balance

1/21/2023

Clashes Between Church and State

1/21/2023

An Attack on the Pope

1/21/2023

The Growing Power of Kings

1/21/2023

A French Pope

1/21/2023

Enriching the Faith Through Drama

1/21/2023

St. Catherine of Siena

1/21/2023

Too Many Popes

1/21/2023

Making the Church One Again

1/21/2023

A Time of Interior Devotion

1/21/2023

Julian of Norwich

1/21/2023

Other Spiritual Classics

1/21/2023

Heresies Abound

1/21/2023

Martin Luther

1/21/2023

John Calvin

1/21/2023

King Henry VIII

1/21/2023

A Fractured Christianity

1/21/2023

The Council of Trent

1/21/2023

Saints and Martyrs of the Counter-Reformation

1/21/2023

Artists of the Counter-Reformation

1/21/2023

Ignatius of Loyola

1/21/2023

Jesuits Around the World

1/21/2023

The Spanish

1/21/2023

The French

1/21/2023

The Martyrdom of Fr. Isaac Jogues

1/21/2023

St. Francis Xavier

1/21/2023

Tearing France Apart

1/21/2023

Gallican Liberties

1/21/2023

Anti-Clericalism

1/21/2023

The French Revolution

1/21/2023

Napoleon

1/21/2023

Napoleon and the Church

1/21/2023

A Liberal Movement

1/21/2023

The Growing Threat of Liberalism

1/21/2023

The Battle of Mentana

1/21/2023

Prisoners of the Vatican

1/21/2023

The Legacy of Pius

1/21/2023

The Rise of Communism

1/21/2023

Modernism

1/21/2023

Signs of Hope

1/21/2023

The Little Flower

1/21/2023

The Great War

1/21/2023

Our Lady of Fatima

1/21/2023

Fascism, Communism, and the Church

1/21/2023

The Nazis

1/21/2023

St. Maximilian Kolbe

1/21/2023

Catholic Sufferings

1/21/2023

Catholicism Around the World

1/21/2023

The Summoning of a Council

1/21/2023

The Novus Ordo

1/21/2023

Vatican II's Legacy

1/21/2023

Striving for Unity

1/21/2023

Tortured by the Communists

1/21/2023

The Church in China

1/21/2023

Confusion and Dissent

1/21/2023

The Election of Karol Wojtyla

1/21/2023

John Paul II and Communism

1/21/2023

The New Evangelization

1/21/2023

John Paul's Last Moments

1/21/2023

Benedict XVI

1/21/2023

The Years Following Benedict's Resignation

1/21/2023

Mother Teresa

1/21/2023

The Greatest Treasure in the World

1/21/2023

Closing Credits

1/21/2023