Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by John W. O'Malley

Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church

John W. O'Malley

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history religion dark slow-paced
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In 1869, some seven hundred Catholic bishops traveled to Rome to participate in the first church-wide council in three hundred years. The French Revolution had shaken the foundations of the church. Pope Pius IX was determined to set things right t...

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