Catholic History for Today's Church: How Our Past Illuminates Our Present by O'Malley Sj, John W.

Catholic History for Today's Church: How Our Past Illuminates Our Present (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781442250024)

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Catholic History for Today's Church: How Our Past Illuminates Our Present by O'Malley Sj, John W.

Catholic History for Today's Church: How Our Past Illuminates Our Present

$24.95
Catholic History for Today's Church: How Our Past Illuminates Our Present by O'Malley Sj, John W.

Catholic History for Today's Church: How Our Past Illuminates Our Present

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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We can't understand the issues swirling in today's Catholic Church without understanding the past. In this book acclaimed historian John W. O'Malley, SJ, illuminates contentious issues--from celibacy to the role of the pope--through their history and then shows how that past connects with life today.

Author: John W. O'Malley Sj
ISBN-10: 144225002X
ISBN-13: 9781442250024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/10/2015
Library Journal 10/01/2015 pg. 64
By John W. O'Malley Sj
By John W. O'Malley Sj
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John W. O'Malley, SJ, was a Roman Catholic priest and professor in the department of theology at Georgetown University. He is the author of a number of books, including A History of the Popes, The First Jesuits, What Happened at Vatican II, and The Jesuits: A History from Ignatius to the Present. Besides other honors he received six best book awards as well as lifetime achievement awards from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Catholic Historical Association. In 1995 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is past president of the American Catholic Historical Association and the Renaissance Society of America.

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