Losing a kingdom, gaining the world : the Catholic Church in the age of revolution and democracy
Caiani, Ambrogio A.2024
Audiobooks
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Despite its many crises, especially in Western Europe, there are still 1.2 billion Catholics in the world and the Church remains a powerful, controversial and defiantly archaic institution. After the French Revolution and the democratic rebellions of 1848, the Church retreated, especially under Pius IX, into a fortress of unreason, denouncing almost every aspect of modern life, including liberalism and socialism. The Pope proclaimed his infallibility; the cult of the Virgin Mary and her apparitions to semi-illiterate shepherds became articles of faith; the Vatican refused all accommodation with the modern state, until a disastrous series of concordats with fascist states in the 1930s. In this book, Dr Ambrogio A. Caiani narrates the epic, fascinating, entertaining and horrifying history of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Author:
Caiani, Ambrogio A., authorElstob, Mark (Narrator), narrator
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Imprint:
Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2024.
Collation:
17 CDs (1097 min.) : digital, stereo
Performers:
Narrated by Mark Elstob.
ISBN:
9781837939312 (CDs)
Dewey class:
282.09
Language:
English
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BRN:
3808647