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  • Soldier of Christ

    The Life of Pope Pius XII

    by Robert A. Ventresca ...
    "This well-crafted biography" presents "a balanced, but not uncritical, examination of the life of a controversial pope" ( Library Journal).Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII are so heated they are known as the "Pius wars." Soldier of Christ focuses instead on Eugenio Pacelli, the flawed yet gifted man himself. While offering insight into the pope's response to Nazism, Robert A. Ventresca ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge History of the Papacy: Volume 2, The Governance of the Church

    Edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, Miles Pattenden ...
    This volume engages with the centrality of the popes within the Catholic Church and the claim of papal authority as it was exercised through the institution's various governing instruments. Addressing the history of the papacy in the longue durée, it highlights developments and the differences between the first and second millennium of the papacy. The chapters bring nuance to older ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Papacy: Volume 3, Civil Society

    Edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, Miles Pattenden ...
    Historically, the papacy has had – and continues to have – significant and sustained influence on society and culture. In the contemporary world, this influence is felt far afield from the traditional geographic and cultural center of papal authority in western Europe, notably in the Global South. Volume 3 frames questions around the papacy's cultural influence, focusing on the influence that ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Papacy: Volume 1, The Two Swords

    Edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, Miles Pattenden ...
    Throughout its history, the papacy has engaged with the world. Volume 1 addresses how the papacy became an institution, and how it distinguished itself from other powers, both secular and religious. Aptly titled 'The Two Swords,' it explores the papacy's navigation, negotiation, and re-negotiation, initially of its place and its role amid changing socio-political ideas and practices. Surviving and ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

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    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    by Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Read more

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  • What Happened at Vatican II

    by John W. O'Malley, S. J. ...
    During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, while its debates generated front-page news on a near-weekly basis. By virtually any assessment, it was the most important religious event of the twentieth century, with repercussions that reached far beyond the Catholic church. Remarkably enough, this is ... Read more

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  • Trent

    What Happened at the Council

    by John W. O'Malley ...
    Trent, the Catholic Church’s attempt to put its house in order after the Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. This one-volume history, the first in modern times, explores the volatile issues that pushed several Holy Roman emperors, kings and queens of France, five popes, and all of Europe to the brink of disaster. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Vatican I

    The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church

    by John W. O'Malley ...
    In 1869, some seven hundred Catholic bishops traveled to Rome to participate in the first church-wide council in three hundred years. The French Revolution had shaken the foundations of the church. Pope Pius IX was determined to set things right through a declaration by the council that the pope was infallible.John W. O’Malley brings to life the bitter, schism-threatening conflicts that erupted at ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • True Reform

    Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium

    by Massimo Faggioli ...
    For Massimo Faggioli, the debate about the meaning of Vatican II too often misses the profound significance of that council's first and perhaps most consequential document, Sacrosanctum Concilium. The result is a misunderstanding of both the council as a whole and the liturgical reform that followed from it.In True Reform, Faggioli takes Sacrosanctum Concilium as a hermeneutical key to the council ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sorting Out Catholicism

    A Brief History of the New Ecclesial Movements

    by Massimo Faggioli ...
    Translated by Demetrio S. Yocum ...
    Focolare, Community of Sant’Egidio, Neocatechumenal Way, Legionaries of Christ, Communion and Liberation, Opus Dei. These are but a few of the most recognizable names in the broader context of the so-called ecclesial movements. Their history goes back to the period following the First Vatican Council, crosses Vatican II, and develops throughout the twentieth century. It is a history that prepares ... Read more

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  • Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning

    by Massimo Faggioli ...
    A balanced presentation of the councils key issues and their interpretation by major theologians and church historians at work in global Catholicism. ... Read more

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  • Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession

    Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession

    by John-Peter Pham ...
    The death of Pope John Paul II and consequent election of Pope Benedict XVI has shed light on a political process that the world has not been privy to for almost twenty-six years. People from around the world gathered in St. Peter's Square, wondering who the next Vatican leader would be and how the election process really worked, while everyone from international news correspondents to local ... Read more

    $22.99 USD