Tag: Lepanto

Lepanto, 450 Years Later: Hope for Christendom in Crisis

The Battle of Lepanto needed strong leadership. Today, Europe is searching for similar leadership. Europe needs statesmen: men and women who think about the next generation, not the next election; people like Don Juan of Austria and Blessed Emperor Karl, animated by a deep sense of service, ready to put the interests of their peoples before their own.

Saint Pius V, the Pope of Lepanto

The defence of Christendom against the Turks—together with the fight against heresy—was a dominant feature of the pontificate of Pius V.