"This work opens to our view a clear exposition of the public history and private practices of the men, who, from the position of simple pastors of a singe church, advanced their authority, step by step, until they became not only the ...

The True Story of the Vatican Council by Henry Manning Edward, first published in 1877, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world.

Much of the present work is devoted to Pius's attempts at resolution of the Turkish problem, and the last ten pages list the ships and commanders, on both sides, who fought at Lepanto.

The title does not appear to me to represent accurately the subject of the book, which is not so much a history of the popes, as a history of the great struggle between catholicism and protestantism, between authority and innovation, in ...

A critical study by a former Jesuit.

Betrifft die Handschrift Cod. 225 der Burgerbibliothek Bern (Bd. 1, S. 41).