Vivid stories of the ten popes the author judges "the most influential in history," including St. Peter, the Rock upon whom the Catholic Church was built, and follows with Leo the Great (fifth century), Gregory the Great (sixth century), Gregory VII (eleventh century), Innocent …
In The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes the translator and commentator continues from the year AD 817, reached in his The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liverpool, 1992), and deals with the remaining ten biographies of the Liber pontificalis down to AD 886, when compilation …
Recounts the life of Joseph Ratzinger, the German theologian who became Pope Benedict XVI, and discusses his religious views and their influence on the contemporary Catholic Church.
Recounts the life of Joseph Ratzinger, the German theologian who became Pope Benedict XVI, and discusses his religious views and their influence on the contemporary Catholic Church.