Six Popes

Download or read book Six Popes written by Hilary C. Franco and published by Humanix Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Monsignor Franco is known as an engaging storyteller of his impactful time in the Church. Read this book and you will see why.” — Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archdiocese of New York Six Popes: A Son of the Church Remembers is Monsignor Hilary C. Franco’s engaging memoir and a story only a son can tell, a son not only of the Catholic Church, but also of Italian immigrants. From Belmont, his Bronx neighborhood, Franco rose to work with the highest and most influential figures of the Roman Catholic Church. As a young man he attended Rome’s premier seminary, soon after becoming the special assistant to Archbishop Fulton Sheen. As a priest he would travel the world, and he recounts a harrowing experience in the Deep South in the early 1960s, his work at the Vatican Councils that redefined the Church, and his time posted at the Church’s diplomatic missions in Washington, D.C., and the United Nations. This most formidable churchman reveals his tales of intellectual, pastoral, and diplomatic service to the Catholic Church, enlivened by recollections of the fascinating people he came to know from U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state, to religious leaders like Padre Pio and Saint Mother Teresa. The title of his current role, Advisor at the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, gives little hint of the drama of the times he recollects. Stories of this book’s six pontiffs that Franco served under — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis — offer landmarks along Franco’s trek through the corridors of spiritual power in New York, Washington, D.C., and Rome. Six Popes: A Son of the Church Remembers is written from a unique eyewitness vantage on many of the events and movements that shaped our world and the Catholic Church. There is really no other book like it.

Download or read book The Bad Popes written by Eric Russell Chamberlin and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of seven popes who ruled at seven different critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation.

Download or read book Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought written by Joseph Gabel and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years ago Joseph Gabel pub­lished a modern masterpiece, which in 1975 appeared in English as False Con­sciousness: An Essay on Reificalion . Combining his special knowledge of existential psychiatry, axiology, Marx­ism, and political history, Gabel pro­posed the utterly novel idea that victims of serious mental disturbances (espe­cially paranoia and schizophrenia) re­produce those distorted thought pat­terns commonly associated with ideo­logical beliefs at the collective level. Such beliefs initially had been laid bare in the 1920s by Gabel's intellectual progenitors, Karl Mannheim and George Lukacs. Gabel's remarkable innovation was to transfer the private crisis of mental collapse into the analytic frame­work previously reserved for ideological critique, making him an expert on what was later called "the micro-macro prob­lem." Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought includes Gabel's essays over the last 40 years, characteristically treating micro and macro theoretical matters simultaneously. Originally writ­ten in French and German, they have been recast in idiomatic English and bibliographically updated. Using a unique mode and vocabulary of analy­sis, Gabel offers theoretical investiga­tions of McCarthyism and Stalinism (original and more recent types), as well as Althusser, Orwell, and Jonathan Swift in his capacity as a psychiatric theorist. He also explores anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and a fascinating case study of a paranoid who regarded him­self as the pope. In addition this volume includes a range of general commentar­ies on ideological "thought," utopianism, and false consciousness. This rich feast of social and political analysis and theory illuminates a range of contemporary concerns—racism, Utopian fantasy, ethnocentrism, anti-Semitism, the interplay of social struc­ture and mental illness, and ideological transformations of social life—which only Gabel's unique mixture of the clini­cal and the political could achieve. It will be studied with interest by all theo­rists and politically alert readers in the social sciences, philosophy, and related fields of study.

Download or read book A History of the Church in Scotland written by Alexander Robertson MacEwen and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pope and the Revolution: a Sermon Preached ... on Sunday, October 7, 1866 written by John Henry Newman and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Papal Bull, from Pope Gregory XVI. to King Joseph, the deluder, companion of the Society of the Jesuits ... the would-be-radical, etc written by Richard OASTLER and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Choice Works of the Rt. Rev. John England, Bishop of Charleston, S.C. written by John England and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: