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Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Papal Conclaves, as They Were and as They are written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Allen
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 038550456X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Conclave written by John Allen and published by Image. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating insider’s guide to the politics and personalities that will have a tremendous impact on one of the world’s most secretive and important events–the election of a pope. The next time a conclave unfolds in Rome, some 6,000 journalists are expected to descend on the Eternal City to cover the death of John Paul II and report on the election of his successor. The man in white who emerges from the Sistine Chapel at its conclusion will automatically become one of the most important figures on earth, a leader who commands a unique combination of political and spiritual power. Depending on how he chooses to exercise that power, governments and political systems may rise or fall, religious wars may heat up or abate, and the Church may undergo a radical transformation–from changes in its stances on such issues as sexuality, the place of women in the Church, to the role of the papacy itself. Conclave is a fascinating look at the election process and at what this headline-making occasion will mean to the world. John L. Allen, Jr., takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the issues, parties, and people most likely to determine the outcome. Setting the election within a broader context, he explains why it matters who becomes pope, discusses their role in the modern world, and examines the issues that will form the agenda of the next papacy. Although the book is not intended as a “handicapper’s guide,” Allen does offer his own informed list of the “top twenty” contenders for the position. He creates, as well, a classification system that clarifies the differences among the informal political parties that exist within the College of Cardinals, the body of 130-plus men who will elect John Paul II’s successor. In conclusion, he presents a critical, independent-minded profile of each of those cardinals–for one of them will certainly be the new pope.
Author : Michael Walsh
Publisher : Sheed & Ward
ISBN 13 : 1461601819
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Conclave written by Michael Walsh and published by Sheed & Ward. This book was released on 2003-06-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1271, with the papal throne vacant for over two years, local officials locked the cardinals of the Catholic Church in a room, forcing them to select a new pope. From this inauspicious beginning arose the practice of the conclave, the highly secretive combination of rituals and politics designed to select a new leader for the world's Catholic population. With Pope John Paul II ailing, the time for a new conclave draws nearer, and Rome is preparing for over 6,000 journalists and innumerable interested onlookers to descend on the Eternal City to witness the election of the next leader of the Catholic Church. In The Conclave, prominent Catholic historian Michael Walsh takes readers through the history of conclaves past, highlighting the vendettas, feuds, and political intrigues that have colored the selection of a new pontiff. An entertaining history of the secret deliberations, colorful stories, and even bloody events that surround the making and unmaking of popes, The Conclave is a great story, a great history, and an important work for anyone interested in the papacy.
Author : Benno Loewy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385526981
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Papal Conclaves, as They were and as They are written by Benno Loewy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : F. Baumgartner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137110147
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Behind Locked Doors written by F. Baumgartner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1600, whenever a Pope dies, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church convene in Rome to elect a successor. The Papal Conclave is an event like no other. Highly secret and conducted behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, it happens about eight times every century. It is an event that has evolved over the centuries and is always filled with high drama: cardinals meeting en masse in their scarlet robes, throngs of the faithful standing watch in St. Peter's Square, the black or white smoke billowing from the chimney signalling the election of a new Pontiff Since secrecy was not heavily invoked until the twentieth century, there is a vast store of rich material to work from and Fred Baumgartner uses it to its utmost detailing the bickering and blatant politicking that goes on behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel in this important and timely book.
Author : Arthur Robert Pennington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Papal Conclaves written by Arthur Robert Pennington and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Harris
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0735273340
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Conclave written by Robert Harris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK The bestselling author of Fatherland and Munich turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men. The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
Author : Mary Hollingsworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180024472X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Conclave 1559 written by Mary Hollingsworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman 'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrecy surrounding papal conclaves' History Today 'Full of lively detail and colour' Literary Review August 1559. As the long hot Italian summer draws to its close, so does the life of a rigidly orthodox and profoundly unpopular pope. The papacy of Paul IV has seen the establishing of the Roman Inquisition and the Index of Prohibited Books, an unbending refusal to open dialogue with Protestants, and the ghettoization of Rome's Jews. On 5 September 1559, as the great doors of the Vatican's Sala Regia are ceremonially locked, the future of the Catholic Church hangs in the balance. Mary Hollingsworth offers a compelling and sedulously crafted reconstruction of the longest and most taxing of sixteenth-century papal elections. Its crisscrossing fault lines divided not only moderates from conservatives, but also the adherents of three national 'factions' with mutually incompatible interests. France and Spain were both looking to extend their power in Italy and beyond and had very different ideas of who the new pope should be – as did the Italian cardinals. Drawing on the detailed account books left by Ippolito d'Este, one of the participating cardinals, Conclave 1559 provides remarkable insights into the daily lives and concerns of the forty-seven men locked up for some four months in the Vatican.
Author : Francis A. Burkle-Young
Publisher : Madison Books
ISBN 13 : 9781568332321
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Passing the Keys written by Francis A. Burkle-Young and published by Madison Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating history of papal politicking over the past 150 years includes an in-depth examination of the most likely candidates for the papacy after John Paul II.
Author : T. Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781482660425
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Papal Conclaves written by T. Trollope and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preface begins: "Never before, since a bishop's See was first established in Rome, whether by St. Peter or another, has the world at the period of the election of one Pope had so long a time in which to forget the election of his predecessor. St. Peter is said by tradition to have been bishop at Rome for twenty-five years. And no Pope of all the two hundred and sixty who occupied the See between his death and the election of Pius IX. ever reigned so long as Peter, the longest reign having been that of Pius VI., who died in 1799, after an incumbency of twenty-four years and eight months."The election of a Pope has not always been a smooth process and there has been much intrigued. Let us consider the self-appointment of John XII: "Clement proceeded to fill the Sacred College with French cardinals, whose scandalous quarrels and grossly simoniacal proceedings caused, at his death in 1314, an interregnum of two years, five months, and seventeen days. Two Conclaves were held during this time, one in Carpentras and one in Lyons; at the last of which, a "compromise" having at length been agreed to, and the French Cardinal Jacopo d'Euse having been intrusted with the nomination of the Pope, and the cardinals having bound themselves, as is the essential condition of an election by "compromise," to accept his nominee as the legitimate Pope, he forthwith declared "Ego sum Papa!" "I am the Pope," and was elected accordingly." There have been other scandals in the history of the election of the Pope, but the Catholic Church has survived them all.
Author : Valérie Pirie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Triple Crown written by Valérie Pirie and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Calixtus III through to Leo XIII.
Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 031287118X
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)
Download or read book White Smoke written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1997-04-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church have gathered in Rome for the papal election following the death of the incumbent pope. Torn by internal conflict and with many of its members alienated, the Church faces one of the most serious crises in its history. A coalition of cardinals favors a more moderate and pluralistic style of papal governance, but must contend with shadowy Vatican forces that oppose change and loss of their own power. These forces are determined to destory the coalition's candidate, a gentle and brilliant Spanish scholar. The leader of the coalition is Chicago's wily Sean Cardinal Cronin, aided by his patently indispensable sidekick, Bishop John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan. A lone assassin stalks the Vatican, his crazed mission: to destroy the next pope as soon as the traditional white smoke issues from the cardinals' meeting room--the Sistine Chapel--followed by the ancient words Habemus papam. Can politics--Chicago style--turn the Catholic Church around? What will happen when the next pope must be chosen? Only Andrew M. Greeley, priest, bestselling novelist, and respected sociologist could have written this blockbuster tale of the forces actually ripping the Church apart, and of the next papal election, when the fate of the entire Catholic Church itself may well hang in the balance. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Stefan Bauer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192533665
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Papal History written by Stefan Bauer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city's significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how historical writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy. By presenting and fully contextualising the path-breaking works of the Augustinian historian Onofrio Panvinio (1530-1568), Stefan Bauer shows what type of historical research was possible in the late Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. Crucial questions were, for example: How were the pontiffs elected? How many popes had been puppets of emperors? Could any of the past machinations, schisms, and disorder in the history of the Church be admitted to the reading public? Historiography in this period by no means consisted entirely of commissioned works written for patrons; rather, a creative interplay existed between, on the one hand, the endeavours of authors to explore the past and, on the other hand, the constraints of ideology and censorship placed on them. The Invention of Papal History sheds new light on the changing priorities, mentalities, and cultural standards that flourished in the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation.
Author : William Cornwallis Cartwright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book On Papal Conclaves written by William Cornwallis Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miles Pattenden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198797443
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 written by Miles Pattenden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 offers a radical reassessment of the history of early modern papacy, constructed through the first major analytical treatment of papal elections in English. Papal elections, with their ceremonial pomp and high drama, are compelling theater, but, until now, no one has analyzed them on the basis of the problems they created for cardinals: how were they to agree rules and enforce them? How should they manage the interregnum? How did they decide for whom to vote? How was the new pope to assert himself over a group of men who, until just moments before, had been his equals and peers? This study traces how the cardinals' responses to these problems evolved over the period from Martin V's return to Rome in 1420 to Pius VI's departure from it in 1798, placing them in the context of the papacy's wider institutional developments. Miles Pattenden argues not only that the elective nature of the papal office was crucial to how papal history unfolded but also that the cardinals of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries present us with a unique case study for observing the approaches to decision-making and problem-solving within an elite political group.
Author : John Thavis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124536
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Vatican Diaries written by John Thavis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling inside look at one of the world’s most powerful and mysterious institutions For more than twenty-five years, John Thavis held one of the most remarkable journalistic assignments in the world: reporting on the inner workings of the Vatican. In The Vatican Diaries, Thavis reveals Vatican City as a place struggling to define itself in the face of internal and external threats, where Curia cardinals fight private wars and sexual abuse scandals threaten to undermine papal authority. Thavis (author of The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age) also takes readers through the politicking behind the election of Pope Francis and what we might expect from his papacy. The Vatican Diaries is a perceptive, compelling, and provocative account of this singular institution and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the challenges faced by religion in an increasingly secularized world.
Author : John M. Hunt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004313788
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome written by John M. Hunt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome John M. Hunt offers a social history of the papal interregnum from 1559 to 1655. The study concentrates on the Roman people’s relationship with their sacred ruler. Using criminal sources from the Archivio di Stato di Roma and Vatican sources, Hunt emphasizes the violent and tumultuous nature of the lapse in papal authority that followed the pope’s death. The vacant see was a time in which Romans of modest social backgrounds claimed unprecedented power. From personal acts of revenge to collective protests staged at the Capitol Hill and citywide discussions of the papal election the vacant see provided Romans with a unique opportunity for political involvement in an age of omnipresent hierarchy.
