For the Cathars, the true Church was not an external space, consecrated to prayer, but was to be sought in the innermost part of the human being.…

Catharism was first and foremost a Christian religion that claimed to be the mouthpiece of the authentic message of Christ.

The baptism of fire, or of the Light, was the principal Cathar sacrament, and, according to their conceptions, the true baptism of Christ.…

During the 12th and 13th century the Cathars’ and Albigenses’ “heretic” deviation from official dogma led to the cruelest religiously-motivated genocide in European history.
On Sunday, October…

It is in the rose of the Cathars that the light of love shines.

The ideal of brotherhood goes back to pure Christianity, as the Gospel call recalls: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself".…