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Book Pope Max

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Caddy
  • Publisher : Fremantle Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781921361180
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Pope Max written by David Caddy and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fulfilling a promise made to his dying grandfather, Max sets himself a hard road - the Vatican or bust! An unlikely hero, Max lurches from challenge to challenge in his bid for the big job; from his secret adoption of a lost lamb to his thwarted attempts at saintly behaviour. This is a gently comic, yet respectful look at Catholicism, and religious conventions in general, not only memorably amusing, but also thought provoking.

Book Max and Benedict

Download or read book Max and Benedict written by Jeanne Perego and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovely children's book is a sequel to Joseph and Chico, the international best seller that told the story of the life of Pope Benedict XVI from his youth to his election as the Pope. With the same award-winning author and illustrator, this lavishly illustrated book is aimed at children but in a way that even adults will enjoy. It takes up the story of Benedict's XVI's new life as the Pope.

Book Ad Paulum V  Pont  Max   Verses urging the Pope s mediation for peace

Download or read book Ad Paulum V Pont Max Verses urging the Pope s mediation for peace written by Pope Paul V and published by . This book was released on 1608 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pope s Jews

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  • Author : Gordon Thomas
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2012-10-02
  • ISBN : 0312604211
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Pope s Jews written by Gordon Thomas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory account of the Vatican's efforts to save thousands of Jewish people during World War II refutes beliefs about Pius XII's neutrality.

Book Senator from Illinois

Download or read book Senator from Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Speaker

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 768 pages

Download or read book The Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pontiff

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gordon Thomas
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 1497658896
  • Pages : 670 pages

Download or read book Pontiff written by Gordon Thomas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II—and an assassination plot—by the New York Times–bestselling coauthors of The Day the World Ended. The Vatican has remained one of the last unexamined mysteries of the modern world. For centuries, pomp and pageantry have hidden from view the dramatic, sometimes sinister, realities that haunt the office of Supreme Pontiff and the men who make up his papacy. Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts now bring their tremendous investigative talent to this most secret of institutions, offering us an unrivaled portrait and day-to-day account of the lives, personalities, and relationships of the three most recent popes: an equally fine account of the hour-by-hour deliberations of the closely guarded conclaves at which two popes were elected in the fateful year of 1978; and a remarkable rendering of the concrete issues facing the institutional papacy—in foreign affairs, economic matters, and the human factor—the highly individual ambitions, loyalties, and hatreds that characterize the men and women who serve the Holy Father. The result is a book that is ahead of the world’s headlines, a book that makes headlines of its own. Not only have the authors brought the world of the Vatican into the open, their sleuthing has uncovered several major news stories. Pontiff includes a day-to-day account of the assassination attempt by Mehmet Ali Agca upon John Paul II: Agca’s history and family, his right-wing political connections, his activities and jailing in Turkey, his escape from jail aided by the KGB, his movements through terrorist training camps in Libya and Syria, and a complete investigation of the Bulgarian connection that led to the shooting in St. Peter’s Square. Here, also, is the story of John Paul II’s involvement with the creation of Solidarity in Poland, and his almost-daily secret contacts with Lech Walesa, as well as the unprecedented letter to Brezhev threatening his resignation from the papal throne. In addition, owing to the authors’ intricate web of connections at the Vatican (including many cardinals), the book contains previously unknown information about the man entrusted with the Church’s money, Paul Marcinkus, and his relationship with the shadowy Michele Sindona. Pontiff is a fascinating revelation of a world previously unknown to us, and an intimate view of a few men in Rome trying to lead an increasingly unwilling world to their own vision of salvation.

Book The Death of Francis Bacon

Download or read book The Death of Francis Bacon written by Max Porter and published by Strange Light. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing and reveling in pleasure and pain as a lifetime of chaotic and grotesque sense memories wash over and envelop him. In this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Max Porter inhabits Francis Bacon in his final moments, translating into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind. Writing as painting rather than about painting, Porter lets the images he conjures speak for themselves as they take their revenge on the subject who wielded them in life. The result is more than a biography: The Death of Francis Bacon is a physical, emotional, historical, sexual, and political bombardment--the measure of a man creative and compromised, erotic and masochistic, inexplicable and inspired.

Book Selection and Confirmation of Federal Judges

Download or read book Selection and Confirmation of Federal Judges written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Off the Radar

Download or read book Off the Radar written by Cyrus Copeland and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part mystery, part reportage, and part detective work, the author sets out to find the truth about his father, who was arrested in Iran for spying at the time of the 1979 hostage crisis and tried in a revolutionary court.

Book Old Enough to Know Better   Mal Pope s Autobiography

Download or read book Old Enough to Know Better Mal Pope s Autobiography written by Mal Pope and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the autobiography of the singer, writer and broadcaster, Mal Pope. Mal was born in Brynhyfryd, Swansea, and as a teenager he sent a tape of songs he had written to John Peel on Radio 1 and was invited to perform on John's Sounds of the Seventies show. Six weeks later Mal was signed to Elton John's Rocket record company.

Book The Confessions of Jonathan Flite

Download or read book The Confessions of Jonathan Flite written by Matthew J. Beier and published by Epicality Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Flite claims to have memories he can’t explain. Seven layers of them, to be exact, all belonging to a group of teenagers who disappeared from a place called Idle County in 2010—ten years before his birth. Seventeen years of anxiety, violent outbursts, and refusal to admit he is lying have landed him at Crescent Rehabilitation Center, a seaside juvenile center for rich kids, and nobody has ever dared to believe his memories might be real. Until now. On a blustery November day just three months after a nuclear terrorist attack in Geneva, Switzerland, ex-CIA psychiatrist Thomas Lumen arrives at Crescent to interview Jonathan for a book about Idle County. Fueled by his personal connection to the disappearances three decades earlier, he asks Jonathan to share what he knows—anything and everything. By reigniting this thirty-year-old mystery, however, Jonathan inadvertently becomes a target of the very same religious terrorists who attacked Geneva, and they’ll stop at nothing to keep the secrets of Idle County under wraps. Jonathan must then make a choice: to continue telling his story, or risk the safety of everyone he loves.

Book The Medals of Pope Sixtus IV  1471 1484

Download or read book The Medals of Pope Sixtus IV 1471 1484 written by Roberto Weiss and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 1961 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spink   Son s Monthly Numismatic Circular

Download or read book Spink Son s Monthly Numismatic Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pope s Dilemma

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacques Kornberg
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2015-05-27
  • ISBN : 144262258X
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book The Pope s Dilemma written by Jacques Kornberg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pope Pius XII presided over the Catholic Church during one of the most challenging moments in its history. Elected in early 1939, Pius XII spoke out against war and destruction, but his refusal to condemn Nazi Germany and its allies for mass atrocities and genocide remains controversial almost seventy years after the end of the Second World War. Scholars have blamed Pius’s inaction on anti-communism, antisemitism, a special emotional bond with Germany, or a preference for fascist authoritarianism. Delving deep into Catholic theology and ecclesiology, Jacques Kornberg argues instead that what drove Pius XII was the belief that his highest priority must be to preserve the authority of the Church and the access to salvation that it provided. In The Pope’s Dilemma, Kornberg uses the examples of Pius XII’s immediate predecessors Benedict XV and the Armenian genocide and Pius XI and Fascist Italy, as well as case studies of Pius XII’s wartime policies towards five Catholic countries (Croatia, France, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), to demonstrate the consistency with which Pius XII and the Vatican avoided confronting the perpetrators of atrocities and strove to keep Catholics within the Church. By this measure, Pius XII did not betray, but fulfilled his papal role. A meticulous and careful analysis of the career of the twentieth century’s most controversial pope, The Pope’s Dilemma is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the Catholic Church’s wartime legacy.