"An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society."-Annette Gordon-Reed,...
Jesuits
- Author:Swarns, Rachel L.Summary:
- Author:Montecino, MarcelSummary:
1920s New York gangster escapes to Mexico, dressed as a priest and is drawn into a revolution, people thinking he is a real priest. Known as Padre Pistolero, the Irish-American Tommy Coyne becomes a guerrilla leader, defending the...
- Author:Watkins, Daniel J.Summary:
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieuwas an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French...