All The Popes Men
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Author | : John L. Allen, Jr. |
Publisher | : Image |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0307423492 |
A fascinating and enlightening look at the world’s oldest and most mysterious institution, written by an American journalist with unparalleled knowledge about the Vatican's past and present. The sexual abuse scandals that shook American and British Catholicism in 2002 brought to light a long-standing cultural gap between the English-speaking Catholic world and the Vatican. In Rome, the crisis was often seen as an attack on the Church mounted by money-hungry lawyers, a hostile press, and liberal activists who used it as a way to turn attention on such concerns as celibacy, women’s ordination, and lay empowerment. When the Vatican struck down the U.S. bishops’ draft for handling allegations of sexual abuse, many saw it as an attempt to curb an independent American Catholic church. Yet, as time passed, it became clear that the Vatican’s well-founded concerns about due process were shared by most liberal U.S. bishops and canon lawyers. ALL THE POPE’S MEN is a lucid, in-depth guide to the sometimes puzzling, often incomprehensible inner workings of the Vatican. It reveals how decisions are made, how papal bureaucrats think, and how careers in the Roman Curia are shaped. It debunks the myths that have fed the distrust and suspicions many English-speaking Catholics harbor about the way the Vatican conducts its business, explains who really wields the power, and offers entertaining profiles of the personalities, historical and present-day, who have wielded that power for good and for bad. A thoughtful analysis of the recent sexual abuse crisis sheds light on how the Vatican perceives the Church in the United States. Balanced, lively, and filled with Vatican history and lore, ALL THE POPE’S MEN provides the general reader with an authoritative picture of the highly charged relationship between the Vatican and the richest, most influential national Catholic church in the world today.
Author | : John L. Allen (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Vatican City |
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Author | : Eamon Duffy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300176880 |
The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity's most powerful leaders for nearly two millennia, and their influence has extended far beyond the purely spiritual. The popes have played a central role in the history of Europe and the wider world, not only shouldering the spiritual burdens of their ancient office, but also in contending with - and sometimes precipitating - the cultural and political crises of their times. In an acclaimed series of BBC radio broadcasts Eamon Duffy explored the impact of ten popes he judged to be among 'the most influential in history'. With this book, readers may now also enjoy Duffy's portraits of ten exceptional men who shook the world. The book begins with St Peter, the Rock upon whom the Catholic Church was built, and follows with Leo the Great (fifth century), Gregory the Great (sixth century), Gregory VII (eleventh century), Innocent III (thirteenth century), Paul III (sixteenth century), and Pius IX (nineteenth century). Among twentieth-century popes, Duffy examines the lives and contributions of Pius XII, who was elected on the eve of the Second World War, the kindly John XXIII, who captured the world's imagination, and John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope in 450 years. Each of these ten extraordinary individuals, Duffy shows, shaped their own worlds, and in the process, helped to create ours.
Author | : Eric Russell Chamberlin |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780880291163 |
The stories of seven popes who ruled at seven different critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation.
Author | : Enid Maud Dennis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Peter Partner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Drawing on extensive research in Italian archives, this is a study of the papal bureaucracy during the Renaissance, a time when the Pope was among the most powerful of European rulers. Partner sets the ruling elite of the Renaissance Papacy in its social and political context, and analyzes its composition and manners of operation. A perceptive analysis of the influential men who ran the Renaissance Papacy, The Pope's Men is a valuable contribution to the study of Renaissance Europe and the history of the Italian states.
Author | : Nathaniel Micklem |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1953 |
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Author | : Michael J. Walsh |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802829414 |
Although a highly visible part of the ecclesiastical furniture of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican for thirteen centuries, surprisingly little has been written about cardinals or (apart from some notable individual biographies), about the men who became papal princes . The cardinals of the Roman Church are the nearly men of Catholicism - those whose office since the 11th century has been chiefly to choose the Pope, following efforts to wrest this power from Rome s nobility and militia. This compelling history traces the origins and growth of the office of cardinal and tells the stories of some of the remarkable (for all kinds of reasons) men who have worn the red cap, coveted by some, refused on occasion and sometimes laid down in exchange for marriage, though one maverick got wed in his red hat. The Cardinals is an informative and entertaining look at the lives of some of the more colourful characters who have worn the cardinatial red or purple. It reveals an unlikely company of saints and villains, patrons of the arts and scholars, cardinals who might have been pope but who were blackballed, and cardinals who were deprived of the title because of their dissolute lives, doubtful opinions, or interference in papal policies. There are diplomats in these pages, statesmen, kingmakers and soldiers. There are members of royal and noble families, and the son of a Doge of Venice. And there are the cardinals whose fame simply lies in their goodness and their care of the dioceses entrusted to them.
Author | : Joe Heschmeyer |
Publisher | : Catholic Answers Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2020-06-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781683571803 |
Author | : Charles A. Coulombe |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780806523705 |
Tracing the history of the papacy from ancient times to the present day, this illuminating study features detailed profiles of each pope, describing the events of their reign, their role in relation to Catholic doctrine, their accomplishments and failures, and other aspects of each man who ruled the Vatican.