An updated version of the critically acclaimed and best-selling reference work first published in 1995.
Still the most comprehensive single-volume compendium on the Church's past - from Pentecost morning to today's pontiff. -OSV's Encyclopedia of Catholic History, Revised, gives you: -Some 2,750 entries based on more than 1000 sources -An easy-to-use alphabetical format and a reader-friendly style -Cross references for finding additional information -A trusted resource on which students - from grade school to graduate school - can rely.
Each entry has been examined for improvement or updating, and more than two hundred items have been added. New features include: -The latest encyclicals and papal documents (Evangelium Vitae, Ut Unum Sint, Fides et Ratio, Ecclessia de Ducharistia, and more) -Biographies of the most recently canonized and beatified, such as Padre Pio, Josemaria Escriva, and Mother Teresa -Histories of Catechetics, the Divine Office, and the Marian Year -And more!
In addition to a complete index, a chronology, and a glossary, the book features appendices and tables on:
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