Relates the boyhood and adult achievements of the Pope who called the Second Vatican Council and transformed the Church and the image of the papacy.
Machiavelli’s political writings are the result of his patriotic reaction to a series of political crises starting with the Charles VIII’s invasion in 1494. Those crises not only eventually ended the Florence Republic but also made Italy subjugated to the mercy of mighty foreign…
The feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary was one of the last medieval Marian feasts to be introduced into the Roman Calendar, and is unusual in the wealth of contemporary, and near contemporary, documentation available for study in relation to its introduction.
Esta investigación aborda la religiosidad de las primeras generaciones de jesuitas hispanos que, tras la aprobación papal de 1540 y la entrada de la Compañía de Jesús en la Monarquía Católica, encabezaron la expansión y fortalecimiento de la orden religiosa a lo largo del territ…
The papacy is the oldest continuously functioning institution in the world. To put that fact into perspective, consider that when George Washington was elected our nation's first president, the 250th pope was already reigning. More than one billion Roman Catholics throughout the…