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| When in Rome ... | |
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| Roman Catholicism 101 | |
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| What Is the Roman Catholic Church? | |
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| What Do Roman Catholics Believe? | |
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| What Is Transubstantiation? | |
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| What Is Purgatory? | |
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| Why Do Catholics Go to Confession? | |
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| Do Catholics Worship the Virgin Mary? | |
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| What Is a Catechism? | |
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| The Papacy: Nuts and Bolts | |
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| The Hierarchy | |
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| How Popes Are Chosen | |
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| Papal Authority Within the Church | |
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| Papal Messages | |
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| The Papacy Through the Centuries | |
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| The Papacy: A Timeline | |
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| An Enduring Institution | |
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| Prophecies and Portents? | |
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| Was St. Malachy a Real Person? | |
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| The Authorship Question | |
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| Prophecies of Malachy That Attracted Early Notice | |
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| The Scoffers Have Their Say | |
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| Selected Prophecies of Malachy Relating to Popes Reigning After 1559 | |
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| Then What? | |
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| The Last Word | |
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| Ten to Remember: Popes Who Made a Difference | |
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| The Right Men at the Right Time | |
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| Ten to Forget: Popes Who Shouldn't Have Been | |
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| Beyond the "Bad Popes" Label | |
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| Out of His Depth: Vigilius Overreaches | |
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| Money, Money: Sabinian Takes the Low Road | |
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| Dirty Business: Sergius III | |
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| The "Popess" Who Wasn't | |
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| Bad Beginnings and Bad Ends: John XII | |
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| Qualification Issues: John XIX | |
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| Devoted to Pleasure: Benedict IX | |
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| Why Did I Take This Job, Anyway?: Celestine V | |
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| Philip's Pawn: Clement V | |
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| The Matchmaker: Innocent VIII | |
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| Family Man: Alexander VI | |
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| So What's the Lesson Here? | |
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| The Ascent of Christianity | |
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| The Rock: Peter and His Immediate Successors | |
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| Warning: Conjecture Ahead | |
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| The Early Years | |
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| Why Rome? | |
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| Who Was St. Peter? | |
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| After Pentecost | |
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| A Tough Act to Follow | |
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| Rome, a Century After Christ | |
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| Tough Times: Persecution and Challenge in the Early Church | |
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| The Saints Come Marching In | |
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| Doctrinal and Other Challenges | |
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| Why the Hard Line on Heresy? | |
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| A Conflict over Easter | |
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| Dark Times | |
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| "In This Sign Shall You Conquer" | |
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| A New Kind of Emperor | |
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| After the Council at Nicaea | |
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| Rome Drifts Toward Chaos | |
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| Leo I | |
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| A Time of Change | |
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| Rome Reemerges | |
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| The Western Empire Disintegrates | |
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| Finally--a Man Big Enough for the Job | |
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| After Gregory | |
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| Honorius Launches an Argument | |
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| Half a Century of Squabbling Concludes | |
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| Turbulent Times | |
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| Willing Spirits, Weak Flesh, and Fresh Division | |
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| After Leo III | |
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| Conflict and Trial | |
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| Blood and Scandal | |
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| "Family Drama" Continues | |
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| Otto Takes Charge | |
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| The New Millennium Dawns | |
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| The Tusculanis Assume Power ... for a While | |
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| A Great Reformer, a Formal Break | |
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| Consolidation and Challenge | |
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| As Far as to the Sepulchre of Christ | |
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| After the Breach--Business as Usual | |
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| The Papacy Takes a Stand | |
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| A Pope Willing to Make the Most of an Imperial Leadership Crisis | |
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| Who's Who? The Avignon Popes and the Council of Constance | |
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| Stability in the Top Spot ... Not! | |
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| The Avignon Popes | |
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| Who's in Charge? | |
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| The Costs of the Great Schism | |
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| Showdown with the Council | |
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| A New View of the Papacy? | |
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| The Pope and the Council, Continued | |
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| After the Council | |
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| Business as Usual | |
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| Sixtus IV's Two Legacies | |
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| Tensions Build | |
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| The Earthquake | |
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| Suspicion and Corruption | |
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| After Alexander | |
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| A Challenge in Germany | |
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| Rift and Reformations | |
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| Welcome to Chaos, Your Holiness | |
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| The Man Who Knew What to Do | |
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| And Then There Was Paul | |
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| Pius Picks Up the Pieces | |
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| After Trent | |
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| Building a New Church | |
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| A Matter of Principle | |
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| The Times, They Are a-Changin' | |
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| The One They Remember | |
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| A Break in the Action | |
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| Leadership at Last | |
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| A Well-Known Family, a Brief Pontificate | |
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| Fresh Turmoil Looms | |
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| An Unfamiliar World | |
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| Ballots and Missions | |
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| The Unconsulted Pope | |
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| Troubles with the French King | |
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| A Pope for the World Stage | |
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| More Trouble with the French | |
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| The Old Century Wanes | |
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| A New Era | |
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| Showdown with the Monarchs | |
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| "Sufficient Qualifications" | |
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| "No Longer of This World" | |
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| Reform in the Abstract | |
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| The Pope Who Refused Confession | |
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| The Brilliant Benedict | |
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| Victory by Defeat | |
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| Clement Under Fire | |
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| Pius VI Struggles for His Footing | |
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| Pius VII: Humiliation and Triumph | |
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| "Will You Elect a Skeleton?" | |
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| The Traditionalist | |
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| From Potentate to Pastor | |
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| Three Men and the Modern World | |
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| In for the Long Term | |
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| After Pius IX | |
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| The Pope Takes a Stand Against Modernism | |
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| Storms on the Horizon | |
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| The World in Flames | |
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| The Church and the Great War | |
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| "The Peace of Christ" | |
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| Pius and World War II | |
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| A New Wind Blows | |
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| Opening a Window: John XXIII | |
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| Paul Guides the Council | |
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| A Global Stage, an Enduring Mission: The Papacy in Our Time | |
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| The Superstar Pontificate | |
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| The Papacy, Old and New | |
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| Epilogue: In Their Own Words | |
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| The Ever-Quotable Popes | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| The Popes in Sequence | |
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| The Antipopes in Sequence | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |