Description
Book SynopsisProbably no religious institution in the world has had so remarkable a history, and assuredly none has attracted so large and varied a literature, as the Papacy. This book contains a study of twenty famous popes whose careers and whose influence were important in the development of the church and in the history of the world. It provides a view of the Papacy from the early 3rd to the early 20th century.
Table of ContentsPreface; St. Callistus and the Early Struggle; St. Damasus and the Triumph; Leo the Great, the Last Pope of Imperial Rome; Gregory the Great, the First Mediæval Pope; Hadrian I. and the Temporal Power; Nicholas I. and the False Decretals; John X. and the Iron Century; Hildebrand; Innocent III.: The Papal Zenith; John XXII.: The Court at Avigno; John XXIII. and the Great Schism; Alexander VI.: The Borgia-Pope; Julius II.: The Fighting Pope; Leo X. and the Dance of Death; Paul III. and the Counter-Reformation; Sixtus V. and the New Church; Benedict XIV.: The Scholar-Pope; Pius VII. and the Revolution; Pius IX.; Leo XIII.; List of the Popes; Index.
