Warren H. Carroll
Dr. Warren H. Carroll (24 March 1932 – 17 July 2011) was a leading conservative Catholic historian and author, and the founder of Christendom College.
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[edit] Biography
He received an M. A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University.
He served at one time in the CIA's anti-communism division as a Communist propaganda analyst, a job that would later prove most beneficial when writing his monumental comprehensive study of international Communism, Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution (updated and re-released as The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution). During 1967-1972 he served on the staff of California State Senator, later U.S. Congressman, John G. Schmitz, who was known for his extreme right-wing views, and who later served as Carroll's godfather.[1]
After his conversion to the Catholic Church in 1968, a year after his marriage to Anne Westhoff, he worked for the Catholic magazine Triumph, and then founded Christendom College in the mid 1970s with the help of other Catholic laymen, in particular the controversial conservative Catholic L. Brent Bozell, Jr.. He served as the first president of the college (located in Front Royal, Virginia) until 1985, as well as the chairman of the History Department until his retirement in 2002. At the time of his death, Carroll lived in Manassas, Virginia with his wife Anne, the founder of Seton Junior & Senior High School and Seton Home Study School and the author of Christ the King, Lord of History, as well as Christ in the Americas.
Before his death, he returned to Christendom College each month during the school year to deliver public lectures on select historical topics, ranging from the history of the country of Malta, the Mongol leader Genghis Khan, the French Revolution, and topics from the 20th century, with lectures on Emperor Karl of Austria and the Russian Revolution in 1917. These public lectures are available for free download through iTunes. He died on July 17, 2011 at the age of 79.[2][3] He was interred on the grounds of Christendom College on July 26, 2011.
[edit] Awards
He has received numerous awards throughout his academic career. In 1995 he was the inaugural recipient of the "Pius XI Award" in history from The Society of Catholic Social Scientists, an organization of which Carroll was a board member.[4][5]
He had published articles through the Society's periodical, the Catholic Social Science Review.[6] Other awards Carroll received included the "Pro Deo et Patria Medal" and the "Queen Isabel Catholic Vision of History Award" from Christendom College[7][8] and the "Christ the King Award" from the Christian Law Institute.
[edit] Controversial Views
He aroused controversy by his defence of the Inquisition and the practice of burning heretics at the stake. As the resident expert in the History Forum of the EWTN Global Catholic Network website in 2002, he moderated a discussion entitled The Benefits of Burning Heretics at the Stake and expressed his agreement with the views of a poster who strongly endorsed the practice.[9] Later in the discussion he justified his views as follows:
Heretics are revolutionaries against the Church, and if they are given a free hand can and will imperil the salvation of millions and begin the upheaval of society. Ask anyone who knew the Communist revolution in Russia or Cuba what horrors revolution brings.
Another apologia for the Inquisition and its punishments, delivered by Carroll, may be found on Youtube.[10] Similar views about the Inquisition are expressed by his wife, Anne W. Carroll, in her book, Christ the King: Lord of History.[11] His book Last Crusade: Spain 1936 professes uncritical support for Franco and the Nationalist cause during the Spanish Civil War.
[edit] Books by Warren H. Carroll
[edit] Non fiction
- A History of Christendom (Six Volumes when complete)
- The Founding of Christendom
- The Building of Christendom
- The Glory of Christendom
- The Cleaving of Christendom
- The Revolution against Christendom (with Anne Carroll)
- The Crisis of Christendom (with Anne Carroll; expected June 2012)
- 1917: Red Banner, White Mantle
- Reasons for Hope (Co-authorship w/ William Marshner, Jeffrey A. Mirus, and Kristin Popik Burns,)
- Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness
- The Guillotine & the Cross
- Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen
- Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution - Deprecated
- The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution
- The Last Crusade: Spain 1936
[edit] Fiction
- The Tarrant Chronicles
- The Chronicles of Victor Tarrant
[edit] References
- ^ "Christendom's Triumph". http://136.242.14.117/Warrencarroll.pdf.
- ^ "Christendom College Founder Dr. Warren H. Carroll Dies at 79". Christendom College. July 18, 2011. http://www.christendom.edu/news/2011/07-18-carroll.shtml. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ^ "Dr. Warren Carroll, Founder of Christendom College, Died Sunday". Cardinal Newman Society. July 2011. http://blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2011/07/18/dr-warren-carroll-founder-of-christendom-college-died-sunday/#. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ^ "The Society of Catholic Social Scientists". Catholicsocialscientists.org. http://www.catholicsocialscientists.org/Content/Organization/awards.asp. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ "The Society of Catholic Social Scientists". Catholicsocialscientists.org. 2011-09-10. http://www.catholicsocialscientists.org/Content/Organization/national_advisory_board.asp. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ "The Catholic Social Science Review". Cssronline.org. http://www.cssronline.org/CSSR/. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
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- ^ "The Benefits of Burning Heretics at the Stake.". http://biblelight.net/burn-heretics.htm.
- ^ "The Truth About the Spanish Inquisition.". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78POwavqt2M.
- ^ "The Inquisition.". http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0009.html.
