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Pope Francis : a man of love and peace
Meet Pope Francis. He is the first person from the Americas ever to be chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Despite his position in the world, Francis is a model of humility. He spreads an important message, encouraging everyone to help the less fortunate, protect the earth, and above all love one another.
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Soldier of Christ
Soldier of Christ reveals a paradoxical figure: a prophetic reformer of limited vision whose leadership stimulated the emergence of a global Catholicism while sowing doubt and dissension among some of the Church’s most faithful servants. The Cold War and Pius XII’s manner of engaging with the modern world defined his pontificate, Ventresca argues.
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Hope : the autobiography
Pope Francis originally intended this book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope have moved him to make this precious legacy available now. 'Hope' is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. Written over six years, this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis's Italian roots and his ancestors' courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his youth, his vocation, adult life, and the whole of his papacy up to the present day.
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Pius XII
A thoughtful and provocative biography of the controversial Pope who led the Catholic Church during World War II There is a claim that Hitler's rise to power was left unchallenged by the inaction of Pope Pius XII.
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Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241)
As Cardinal Hugo and as pope, Gregory was one of the dominant figures in the history of the papacy of the High Middle Ages. Coming to prominence under Pope Innocent III, Hugo played an important political role, particularly as legate on various occasions, as well as being a major promoter of the new religious orders. As pope, his battle with Emperor Frederick II is one of medieval history’s most absorbing conflicts. But he also acted as peacemaker, promoter of the Crusades, instigator of mission for the sake of conversion, refomer of the Curia, patron of arts and liturgy, and as a passionate advocate of Church reform. His decretal collection, the Liber Extra, was the most influential of the Middle Ages. A full examination of Gregory’s pontificate is very long overdue. The current volume brings together a team of international scholars, each of them expert in dealing with a particular aspect of the pontificate, and provides what will be a collection of studies of lasting scholarly value on a central figure of the medieval papacy.
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Gregory the Great
Gregory I (590-604) is often considered the first medieval pope and the first exponent of a truly medieval spirituality. Carole Straw places Gregory in his historical context and considers the many facets of his personality—monk, preacher, and pope—in order to elucidate the structure of his thought and present a unified, thematic interpretation of his spiritual concerns.
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Pope Alexander III And the Council of Tours (1163)
From the Preface: The 1163 council at Tours met amidst the most
protracted conflict between a pope and a secular ruler in medieval
history, the eighteen-year struggle between Alexander III and
Frederick Barbarossa. The gathering duly receives a paragraph or so
in surveys of that dispute, and it usually is included-and properly
so-in lists of the important sources for twelfth- and
thirteenth-century canon law. But the meeting has been accorded no
integrated study of all its political and legislative facets, nor
have all of the sources, even all of those available in print, ever
been utilized together. The present work strives to offer in one
volume a historical account of the synod at Tours which is as
complete as possible. That means uncovering the conciliar events as
well as pondering their relation to the great issues of the time,
especially Alexander's struggle with Frederick. The aim is to
reconstruct, as sources permit, what happened at a council of
acknowledged import, and at the same time to examine the
interdependence of those events with the historical climate in
which the gathering convened. Such reciprocity often has become
hazy, but synods do not assemble in a vacuum. Their histories gain
greater fascination in proportion to how successfully the events
in concilio can be linked to movements and pressures from
society at large. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1977.
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