About Nicholas Gulda

Nicholas Gulda is a high school Spanish and History teacher in the Archdiocese of Detroit and a Catholic convert. He holds an M.A. in History from Oakland University, where his thesis examined crusader motivations in the campaigns of James I of Aragon. The Crossroads explores the intersection of history and theology, with particular focus on the crusades, papal authority, Marian doctrine, the biblical canon, and Islamic-Christian encounter. His writing brings the scholarship of the medieval and early Church into conversation with contemporary questions of faith and authority.

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The Apostolic Foundation of the Roman Church

The dual apostolicity of the Roman church was a... read more

Patriarch Kirill and the Idea of Combatants as...

Comments that the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church made earlier... read more

The "Ascension of Isaiah" and the Martyrdom of...

Background: According to tradition, the Apostle Peter eventually came to the... read more

Rome, Babylon, and 1 Peter 5:13 Revisited

"The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth... read more

September 11, a 1998 Fatwa, and an Unfortunate...

Introduction: Today on the memorial of September 11, 2022 many Americans... read more

The Origins of the Denial of Peter’s Roman...

Background: For the first thirteen centuries of Christianity it was... read more

Mary, Mother of God and the Council of...

St. Cyril of Alexandria at the Council of Ephesus, Francisco Meneses Osorio,... read more

Francis Dvornik on Canon XXVIII of Chalcedon

Pope St. Leo the Great, by Francisco de Herrera el Mozo, Museo... read more

Political Polarization at the Dawn of the Spanish...

José María Gil Robles, 1933.(Wikimedia Commons) In his monograph on the Spanish... read more

Rome, Babylon, and 1 Peter 5:13

Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and Mark and Three Venetian Procurators,... read more

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