This book describes the change from the Catholic Church of the ancien regime to the church of the early nineteenth century as it affected the institution of the

A behind-the-scenes view of the power struggles within the Vatican and “a look inside the byzantine halls of the institutional Catholic Church.”—Publisher

Presents a collection of talks on the theme of gathering to worship, given by the Pope at World Youth Day in 2004, along with several talks that he gave in the

Days after the assassination of his prime minister in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The