Noble, Thomas F. X.
Summary: Lectures study the reason for the Catholic Church's papacy, how popes are chosen, and what kind of men have filled the office.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 POPStine, Megan
Summary: "Author Megan Stine charts the beginning of Christianity and its hold on members of the faith as well as the countless struggles for power (one pope was poisoned by his own men!), the building of the Vatican and creation of the Sistine Chapel, and the Secret Archives that hold papers the church has accumulated over the centuries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 945.6 STIHerman, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 945.634 HERBellitto, Christopher M.
Summary: A church historian addresses questions about church history and Catholicism today, and walks the reader through 2,000 years of the papacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paulist Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 BELReese, Thomas J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 REEThavis, John.
Summary: Presents a behind-the-scenes perspective on the Vatican's inner workings that challenges popular perceptions, revealing the personal conflicts, authority-undermining scandals, and modern considerations that are challenging the Vatican's daily business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.136 THABrown, Dan
Summary: A Harvard symbologist analyzes a mysterious symbol seared to the chest of murdered physicist and discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood to carry out its vendetta against the Catholic Church.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Dan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Izd-vo "AST" 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 BRODe Rosa, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 DERBrown, Dan
Summary: The murder of a world-famous physicist raises fears that the Illuminati are operating again after centuries of silence, and religion professor Robert Langdon is called in to assist with the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BRODuffy, Eamon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press, in association with S4C 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 DUFRendina, Claudio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Locks Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 RENWilliams, Paul L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 WILWills, Garry
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the Church's devious practices and stubborn resistance to the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 WILWills, Garry
Summary: The author recounts his own experiences as a Jesuit seminarian and a Catholic layman, traces the origins of the papacy and explains why this often fallible institution is not the same as the Church, and discusses the Apostle's Creed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 WILNorwich, John Julius.
Summary: A comprehensive, rollicking, and timely history of the papacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Dunant, Sarah.
Summary: "By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy are matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city of Italians. If...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNLaw, Jude
Summary: After Pope Pius the XIII falls into a coma, he is replaced with a British intellectual, John Paul III, and when the young pope recovers a fight ensues for control of the papacy and the church.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2020