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Book SynopsisA magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between progress and tradition in the world's largest international institution
Trade Review"One of [
Catholicism’s] many strengths is the confidence to range across the world from Latin America to sub-Saharan Africa. Intellectually this would be a challenge for any historian, though McGreevy effortlessly guides us with a steady hand throug" -- Enda Delaney - The Irish Times
"In this appealing, easily readable and amply noted volume, McGreevy identifies phases in the development of Catholicism over the past two-and-a-half centuries with the overriding interests, themes or controversies for each period in his view… a truly engaging and substantially reliable narrative on how Catholicism has arrived at its current phase as a global Church." -- John Borelli - The Tablet
"[McGreevy] does a remarkable job of explaining how the epic struggle between reformists and traditionalists has led us to the present moment in the Roman Catholic Church." -- Tim Egan - The New York Times
"The power, the glory, the sin, and the sorrow—the whole Catholic saga is here, a cross-cultural story essential to modernity and to Faith itself." -- James Carroll, author of The Truth at the Heart of the Lie
"In an epic about moral globalization since the French Revolution, John T. McGreevy narrates a quest for understanding and conversion, a tale of diasporas and missions. This is truly a majestic book." -- Jeremy Adelman, coauthor of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
