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Collins, Paul, 1940-
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Papacy -- History.
Popes -- Temporal power.
Vatican City -- History.
Papal States -- History -- 1815-1870.
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Collins, Paul, 1940-
Papacy -- History.
Popes -- Temporal power.
Vatican City -- History.
Papal States -- History -- 1815-1870.
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Absolute
power
:
how
the
pope
became
the
most
influential
man
in the
world
/ Paul Collins.
by
Collins, Paul, 1940-
PublicAffairs, 2018.
Call #:
262.13 C712a
Subjects
Papacy -- History.
Popes -- Temporal
power
.
Vatican City -- History.
Papal States -- History -- 1815-1870.
ISBN:
9781610398602 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xv, 366 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-348) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Extinction? -- A death in Valence -- The "new consciousness" and "neo-ultramontanism" -- Part II. From "supreme
power
" to supreme pontiff -- Tackling a whole new
world
-- "God and the revolver!" -- "Obbedire, Obey" -- Pontificating on everything -- Part III. Rolling out and rolling back Vatican II -- Good
Pope
John -- "Throwing open the windows" -- The Polish colossus -- Part IV. "The smell of the sheep" -- "Reform of the reform" -- The "field hospital" -- Death and resurrection.
Summary:
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its
most
influential
pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority.
"In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered across Europe and the next papal election uncertain, even if Catholicism survived, it seemed the papacy was finished. In this gripping narrative of religious and political history, Paul Collins tells the improbable success story of the last 220 years of the papacy, from the unexalted death of
Pope
Pius VI in 1799 to the celebrity of
Pope
Francis today. In a strange contradiction, as the papacy has lost its physical power--its armies and states--and remained stubbornly opposed to the currents of social and scientific consensus, it has only increased its influence and political authority in the
world
."--From publisher.
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