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As Pope Francis continues to make his mark on the church, there is increased interest in his Jesuit background—what is the Society of Jesus, how is...

Counter Reformation, Catholic Reformation, the Baroque Age, the Tridentine Age, the Confessional Age: why does Catholicism in the early modern era ...

The workings of Western intelligence in our day--whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church--are as troubling as they are mys...

A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world—the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus' ch...

We can’t understand the issues swirling in today’s Catholic church without understanding the past. In Catholic History for Today’s Church acclaimed...

John W. O’Malley gives us the most comprehensive account ever written of the Society of Jesus in its founding years, one that heightens and transfo...

From one of our foremost church historians comes an overarching analysis of the three modern Catholic councils—an assessment of what Catholicism wa...

In 1869, some seven hundred Catholic bishops traveled to Rome to participate in the first church-wide council in three hundred years. The French Re...

During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, wh...