An exhaustive and important reference work for every Catholic library! This first volume of the planned  Encyclopedia of Theology and Church from Heder & Herder publishing is the best one-volume reference work on the popes and the papacy. Part one covers every pope and anti-pope; part two discusses the institution of the Vatican and the papacy.    

The Liber Pontificalis is an invaluable historical document, cataloging the names and dates of the first 65 Pontiffs of Rome beginning with St. Peter himself. Though of unknown authorship, its antiquity is well established. Modern scholarship has determined that the Liber was probably first compiled in the 6th century AD and continued piecemeal thereafter. This English edition, originally …