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The Reform of the Papacy: The Costly Call to Christian Unity

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Product DescriptionCatholic Press Award-winner. With the ascendancy of a new pope and his papal visit to the U.S. in 2009, the future of the Catholic church is again on the minds of many. In this influential bestseller, John R. Quinn, who served as Archbishop of San Francisco, makes a clear and bold case for reform [...]

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Pope John Paul II: A Tribute

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Product DescriptionPope John Paul II: A Tribute follows the life of Pope John Paul IIs momumental religious life from childhood to his early papacy up to the time of the Jubilee Festival. With never-before-seen photos, Pope John Paul II: A Tribute serves as a poignant biography, both visually and in the captured word. To honour [...]

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Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Myteries of Antiquity

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Product DescriptionI.--POINTS OF VIEW II.--THE MYSTERIES AND THEIR WISDOM III.--THE GREEK SAGES BEFORE PLATO IN THE LIGHT OF THE WISDOM OF THE MYSTERIES IV.--PLATO AS A MYSTIC V.--THE WISDOM OF THE MYSTERIES AND THE MYTH VI.--THE MYSTERY WISDOM OF EGYPT VII.--THE GOSPELS VIII.--THE LAZARUS MIRACLE IX.--THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN X.--JESUS AND HIS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND [...]

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Innocent III: Vicar of Christ or Lord of the World?

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Product DescriptionWhen it was first published by D.C. Heath in 1963 as part of their "Problems in European Civilization" series, this small volume offered readers a broad representation of the scholarly discussion on Pope Innocent III in an accessible format. Now revised and updated, this new edition presents recent scholarship on the role of Innocent [...]

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Gregory the Great and His World

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Product DescriptionThe book is a study of Gregory the Great, the pope who sent Augustine (of Canterbury) and his fellow missionaries to convert the heathen English to Christianity (597). Markus gives a full account of Gregory's life and work, his thought and spirituality, within the setting of the world at the end of the sixth [...]

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Shepherd of Souls: A Pictorial Life of Pope Pius XII

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Product DescriptionThis publication contains over 250 historic photographs, sketches and documents portraying the life and works of Pope Pius XII. It captures his role as spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, celebrates his accomplishments and eloquently describes the salient periods of his life by means of humorous anecdotes, historical facts, human interest stories, and revelations [...]

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Juan Pablo II: El Guerrero De La Paz / John Paul II: The Peace Warrior

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Product DescriptionDuring a one-year period, long-time National Geographic photographer Stanfield was given the rare opportunity to access the life of Pope John Paul II. Through Stanfield’s extraordinary images, the book narrates the Pope’s travels to Spain and Latin America. Photos of his childhood and youth give us a brief glimpse to a part of His [...]

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God's New Man: The Election of Benedict XVI and the Legacy of John Paul II

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Product DescriptionRushed out to mark the election of the new Pontiff, here is a book with three distinct purposes - an assessment of Pope John Paul II, an account of the Conclave, and a portrait of the new Pope. This compelling new book is an assessment of Pope John Paul II, an account of the [...]

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The Pontiff in Winter: Triumph and Conflict in the Reign of John Paul II

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Product DescriptionOver more than a quarter of a century, John Paul II has firmly set his stamp on the billion-member strong Catholic Church for future generations and he has become one of the most influential political figures in the world. His key role in the downfall of communism in Europe, as well as his apologies [...]

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Pope John Paul II: The Epic Life of a Pilgrim Pope

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Product DescriptionThis multimedia coffee table book/CD-ROM package is the only one of its kind to honor in exquisite detail the remarkable, historical papacy of Pope John Paul II. Through hundreds of rare and archival photographs, extensive video footage, and decades_ worth of reporting and interviews, John Paul II: The Epic Life of a Pilgrim Pope [...]

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The Mystery of the Trinity in the Theological Thought of Pope John Paul II

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Product DescriptionSince his election to the papacy in 1978, Pope John Paul II's incomparable theological thinking has exercised a vast influence upon the Catholic Church. His documents command worldwide attention because he presents the Tradition of the Church in an accessible way to contemporary readers. The Mystery of the Trinity in the Theological Thought of [...]

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James of Viterbo: De Regimine Christiano

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Product Description"James of Viterbo's De regimine Christiano" was produced at the height of the great conflict of 1296-1303 between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair of France. Echoing and elaborating Boniface's Bull Unam sanctam, the treatise is a detailed and rigorous defence of the 'hierocratic' ideology of the thirteenth-century papacy in its most ambitious [...]

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A Key to the Knowledge of Church History

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Product DescriptionThis Volume offers to the reader a short and condensed account of the origin, growth, and condition of the Church in all parts of the world, from the time of our Lord down to the end of the fifteenth century, the narrative being compressed into as small a compass as is consistent with a [...]

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Benedict XVI: An Intimate Portrait

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Product DescriptionIn the person of Pope Benedict XVI, one of the most significant of Europe's intellectuals is heading-up the Vatican. The journalist Peter Seewald, who has known Ratzinger since 1992, conducted the "longest interviews in church history" with him, for two books which were best-sellers world-wide, Salt of the Earth, God and the World. Now [...]

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The Prophecies of St Malachy & St Columbkille

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Product DescriptionAn updated edition of the book examining the accuracy of the prophecies of St. Malachy and St. Columbkille. The Prophecies of St Malachy & St Columbkille Tags: St. Malachy, DescriptionAn, prophecies of st malachy, Columbkille, Prophecies, accuracy, Malachy

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Popes and Patriarchs: An Orthodox Perspective on Roman Catholic Claims

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Product DescriptionFor any dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches to be fruitful, we must first understand our differences. Popes and Patriarchs covers some of the distinctives in theology and worldview that separate the churches of the East from those of the West, focusing primarily on the claims of papal supremacy. Author Michael Whelton, [...]

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Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

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Brett Whalen explores the compelling belief that Christendom would spread to every corner of the earth before the end of time. During the High Middle Ages—an era of crusade, mission, and European expansion—the Western followers of Rome imagined the future conversion of Jews, Muslims, pagans, and Eastern Christians into one fold of God’s people, assembled [...]

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A Dictionary of Popes (Oxford Paperback Reference)

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This fascinating dictionary gives concise accounts of every officially recognized pope in history, from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI, as well as all of their irregularly elected rivals, the so-called antipopes. Each pope and antipope's entry covers his family and social background and pre-papal career as well as his activities in office. Also, an [...]

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Pope John XXIII (Lives) (Lives S.)

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Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli was an unexpected choice to follow the ultra conservative Pope Pius XII in 1958. At seventy-six years old, 'a fat old man with twinkling eyes and a seductively resonant voice', neither a well-known public figure nor a highly trained theologian, he was at first regarded as a transitional pope. During his brief [...]

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A Dictionary of Popes

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Product DescriptionThis fascinating dictionary gives concise accounts of every officially recognized pope in history, from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI, as well as all of their irregularly elected rivals, the so-called antipopes. Each pope and antipope's entry covers his family and social background and pre-papal career as well as his activities in office. Also, [...]

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