Chronicles the history of the Jesuit order from the time of Ignatius of Loyola to the present Pope Francis.
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In the nineteenth century, the foundations upon which the Catholic Church had rested for centuries were shaken by liberalism. At the Vatican Council of 1869-1870, the church made a dramatic effort to set things right by defining the doctrine of papal infallibility. As a result, t...
We can't understand the issues swirling in today's Catholic Church without understanding the past. In this book acclaimed historian John W. O'Malley, SJ, illuminates contentious issues-from celibacy to the role of the pope-through their history and then shows how that past connec...
On this year's visit to his great-aunts' farm, a young boy enjoys all that is involved in making plum jam--even the adventure of getting the plums from Farmer Wilson's tree.