This survey launches a major five-volume series exploring the history of the papacy. This initial volume runs from the French Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union. Its central theme is the response of this most ancient of institutions to the modern secular age. The text considers the Papal response to major events including the French Revolution, the unification of Italy and Germany and the two World Wars. It explores such contentious issues as the relations of the Vatican with the fascist powers, and the silence of Pius XII in the face of the Holocaust, and offers a fresh perspoective on international relations since the beginning of the 19th century.
Gregory XVI had confirmed for Goa the Benedictine José Maria da Silva Torres under somewhat ambiguous conditions. The Pope publicly recognized the Portuguese rights of patronage in the Estado da India but in a private letter to the new ...
7. Steven B. Oppenheimer and George Lefever Jr. , Introduction to Embryonic Development , 2d ed . ( Boston : Allyn and Bacon , 1984 ) , 87 . 8. Ibid . , 87 . 9. Bruce M. Carlson , Patten's Foundations of Embryology , 5th ed .
Purgation and Purgatory is a collection of sayings on spiritual purification in this life and the next. The Spiritual Dialogue gives us a readable and coherent inner history of Catherine.
教宗方濟各對身處疫情中的全球民眾 最雄辯又溫暖的邀請 我們是世界的共同創造者 這究竟是COVID-19引起的亂象, 還是COVID-19終於讓我們看見亂象? 這是否正是病毒的提問: ...
The saintly austerities of Mary of Egypt so impressed early monks that they recorded her life to edify their brethren. Many versions circulated and the tale traveled from Palestine to...
The Language of Silence: The Changing Face of Monastic Solitude
When Henry II came to the throne of England, he was hailed as the one who brought to an end the divisions caused by the Norman conquest, for both the...
The Reckoned Expense: Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits : Essays in Celebration of the First Centenary of Campion...
This document's purpose is to spell out the Church's understanding of the nature of revelation--the process whereby God communicates with human beings. It touches upon questions about Scripture, tradition, and...
From Boston to Los Angeles, Catholic sexual abuse scandals have been widely coverd in the media. Here for the first time the personal stories of those involved, both abusers and...