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Catholic Answers Press
March 18, 2025

SAN DIEGO, March 18, 2025 /Standard Newswire/ -- If you can re-write history, you control the future. That’s why so many of today’s cultural battles are waged over the memory of figures from the past. If the official version of history decides that somebody was evil, that person and everything he stands for is removed from favorable memory—“canceled”—forever.

The enemies of Catholicism know this, too, and they have been hard at work creating official versions of history that paint certain famous Catholics as vicious villains. But Canceled, the new book from Catholic Answers Press, sets the record straight in defense of these historical figures—and the Faith they represent.

Author Steve Weidenkopf (The Real Story of Catholic History) is well known as a Catholic contrarian voice on historical events, such as the Crusades and Inquisition, that modernists despise. Now he turns his talents to rehabilitating a dozen Catholic heroes who have been unjustly maligned by the prevailing history. From Marie Antoinette to Pius XII, from “Bloody Mary” to Christopher Columbus, Weidenkopf defends the true faith, character, and actions of these good—not perfect—men and women from the slander and fictions of the cancel brigade.

“Revisionist history is one of the most subtle but dangerous forms of anti-Catholicism,” says Todd Aglialoro, director of publishing for Catholic Answers. “Even many Catholics, buying into the myths, have become resigned to viewing our past with shame. But Steve Weidenkopf shows us that some of the most notorious Catholic bogeymen of our textbooks and popular imagination were actually complex, sympathetic, and indeed even heroic examples of faith and virtue.”

About the Author: Steve Weidenkopf is a Catholic historian, teacher, and writer.

SOURCE: Catholic Answers Press

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