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.
Download or read book The Lives and Times of the Roman Pontiffs written by Artaud de Montor and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Orations Volume 3 written by Cicero and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history. This is volume three out of four with his brilliant orations.
Download or read book The Diary of John Burchard of Strasburg Bishop of Orta and Civita Castellana written by Johann Burchard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna Medieval Texts in Translation written by Agnellus (of Ravenna, Abbot) and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation makes this fascinating text accessible for the first time to an English-speaking audience. A substantial introduction to Agnellus and his composition of the text is included along with a full bibliography
Download or read book The Lives and Times of the Roman Pontiffs from St Peter to Pius IX written by Artaud de Montor and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Commentaries of the Laws of England in Four Books with an Analysis of the Work written by Sir William Blackstone and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero Orations for his house Plancius Sextius C lius Milo Ligarius etc written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Pontiff and the Prophet Volume Ii written by David Francis Mahoney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of The Pontiff and The Prophet trilogy (The City and The Wilderness) tells the story of Antonlonello (the Prophet), his escape through the northern wilderness of Norumbega, his capture, and death in the levels of Quebec. It also depicts the various aspects of life lived in the theocratic world Utopia of a far distant future. It portrays the outlawed prophetic movement called the Ekklessia, life in the slum city of Sordesium, and it tells the story of the second and third generations of Prophet followers. The novel concludes with the story of Victor Dutton and Olivia Preager in the great domed cities of Boston, Quebec, and Rome. Dutton is suspected of conspiracy in the death of the Prophet. An investigation follows that reaches into the highest levels of the Pontifi cal Utopia. A number of central characters populate this utopian trilogy - among the most important being the mysterious fi gure of Mecox. The story refl ects the internal struggles and early evolution of multiple Christianities, and the slow emergence of orthodoxy.
Download or read book The New Larned History for Ready Reference Reading and Research written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Donation of Constantine written by Lorenzo Valla and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule.
Download or read book The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero Orations for his house Plancius Sextius C lius Milo Ligarius etc etc written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome Alive Vol 1 written by Peter J. Aicher and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're an armchair tourist, are visiting Rome for the first time, or are a veteran of the city's charms, travelers of all ages and stages will benefit from this fascinating guidebook to Rome's ancient monuments. Rome Alive describes the Site and Foundation of Rome, Walls and Aqueducts, the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum, the Upper Sacra Via, the Palatine Hill, the Colosseum Area, the Imperial Fora, the Campus Martius, the Forum Boarium and Aventine, and the Circus Maximus to Tomb of Scipios, all using the words of the ancients who knew them best. Aicher's commentary orients the visitor to each site's ancient significance. Photographs, maps, and floorplans abound, all making this a one-of-a-kind guide. Special Features An ideal introduction and valuable field companion for navigating Rome's ancient city, Rome Alive features: • Introduction with information on ancient authors cited • Latin and Greek sources, in translation • Organization by site, with commentary and notes to supplement original sources • Plenty of photographs, maps, and floorplans • General index • Separate volume of original Greek and Latin passages (Vol. II)
