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Hilaire Belloc's best work - according to the author, as well as most critics - The Path to Rome is less concerned with Rome itself than with a pilgrim's journey to the Eternal City. A spirited Catholic apologist, Belloc traveled on foot from Toul (near Nancy), France, and crossed the Alps and the Apennines in order to, in his words, "see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved." Afterward, he turned his pen from his usual polemics to literature,...
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Katherine Ludwig Jansen is professor of history at the Catholic University of America. Her books include the award-winning The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton).
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking...
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Los que peregrinan a Roma, decía Alfonso X el Sabio, se llaman romeros. Este libro es el diario de una peregrinación a Roma desde Nápoles hasta la Ciudad Eterna, realizada a pie por tres romeros, mendigando la comida y durmiendo en cualquier sitio, como los peregrinos de antaño. El camino hasta la tumba de Pedro es el hilo conductor que enlaza cansancios, risas, oraciones, versos, encuentros con todo tipo de personas y lugares repletos de historia.
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For five centuries, the Vatican-the oldest organization in the world, maker of kings and shaper of history-has used a secret spy service, called the Holy Alliance, or later, the Entity, to carry out its will. Forty popes have relied on it to carry out their policies. They have played a hitherto invisible role confronting de-Christianizations and schisms, revolutions and dictators, colonizations and expulsions, persecutions and attacks, civil wars...
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On 24 May 1497 Girolamo Savonarola was led out to a scaffold in the middle of the Piazza della Signoria. Crowds gathered around and watched as he was publically humiliated before being hanged and burned. But what did this man do that warranted such a horrendous death? Born on 21 September 1458 in Ferrara, Girolamo Savonarola would join the Dominican order of friars and find his way to the city of Florence. Run by the Medici family, the city was used...
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With Arthurian grandeur, the Papal Zouaves marched into Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, summoned by the Pope under siege as the Wars of the Risorgimento raged. Motivated by wanderlust, a sense of duty and the call of faith, some 20,000 Catholic men from around the world rallied to Vatican City to defend her gates against Sardinian marauders. Volunteers came from France, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Austria, and many other countries, including the...
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An inspiring story of faith and family across two continents
Like millions of other Italians in the early twentieth century, Justin Catanoso's grandfather immigrated to America to escape poverty and hardship. Nearly a hundred years later, Justin, born and raised in New Jersey, knows little of his family beyond the Garden State.
That changes in 2001 when he discovers that his grandfather's cousin, Padre Gaetano Catanoso, is a Vatican-certified miracle...
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Experience the Scriptures in an exciting way with this gorgeous, one-of-a-kind Bible from Catholic Bible Press. Each art rendering in this devotional Bible is linked to a passage of Scripture to guide your reflection. Printed in the popular and trusted New Revised Standard Version, this Bible contains the complete Catholic canon printed on single-column pages for easy reading.
About the NRSV: Renowned for its balance of scholarship and readability,...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of John Paul II in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Pope John Paul II. In 1978, to widespread surprise, the Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyła was elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church. In the course of over 26 years as pope, he would modernize the Church and the papacy, making them more visible and accessible, and would play...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Jean-Paul II en moins d'une heure !
Élu pape à la surprise générale en 1978, Jean-Paul II a marqué de son empreinte l'histoire pontificale. Pourtant rien ne le prédestinait à devenir le chef de l'Église catholique romaine. Alors qu'il souhaitait tout d'abord embrasser une carrière d'acteur, il finit par emprunter le chemin de la carrière ecclésiastique en 1942. Il prend rapidement part à...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Juan Pablo II, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Profundizar en la vida de Juan Pablo II y en el contexto que lo llevará a convertirse en un papa dispuesto a viajar por todo el mundo para encontrarse con los pueblos
• Entender la influencia política que ejerce a nivel mundial durante la caída de...
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The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him “Hitler's Pope.” But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pius ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously...
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