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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 | |