For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. Triumph offers an accessible, af…
Over the last forty years a great deal of time and energy has been devoted to developing a dialogical approach to the identity and mission of the church. This has been on the agenda of virtually al…
Since the closing of Vatican II (1962-1965) nearly fifty years ago, several multivolume studies have detailed how the bishops at the council debated successive drafts and finally approved the sixte…
This one-volume survey of the history of the Catholic Church--from its beginning through the pontificate of John Paul II--explains the Church's progress by using Christopher Dawson's division of th…
The position of the Roman Catholic Church on responsible parenthood as opposed to unlimited procreation has not been clearly understood outside the Church; indeed it is not clear to many of its own…
Vincent Donovan is known to tens of thousands of readers as the author of Christianity Rediscovered. In this long-awaited sequel, he moves from Africa, where he sought to present Christ without the…
The author pulls no punches. For example: "Over the years, it has become evident that 'Modernism' ...never existed outside of the minds of Pius X and his curial advisors. ...Modernism was a figment…
The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its history. As the curtain comes down on the Church of the 16th-century Counter-Reformation, it rises on the Evangelical Catholicism of…