Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

by John T. McGreevy

Book Overview

In dramatic stories and sweeping panoramas, distinguished historian John T. McGreevy tells the mesmerizing story of a Church torn between the forces of reform and reaction for the past 250 years. Anti-monarchist French clerics celebrated the Revolution, but the murder of priests and destruction of churches in the Terror galvanized a powerful conservative reaction that reverberates to this day. Missionaries around the world greatly expanded the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 132400388X
• ISBN13: 9781324003885
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.5"