This book explores the response of the papacy to the challenges of the modern age, offering a fresh perspective on political and ideological development across
This ambitious survey launches a major new five-volume series. It explores the response of the papacy, one of the world's longest-enduring institutions, to the
This the first scholarly study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr Pollard, a leading historian of the papacy, explores the
The founding of the Catholic missions in Australia coincided with the defining drift of power and prestige within the nineteenth-century Church. This was a peri
The startling changes that have taken place within the Catholic Church since World War II were the direct accomplishments of Pius XII and his successors. These