Autor: O. Malley John W. O. Malley

Winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize The Council of Trent (1545-1563), the Catholic Church’s attempt to put its house in order in response to the Protestant Reformation, has long been praised and bl …

In 1869, some seven hundred Catholic bishops traveled to Rome to participate in the first church-wide council in three hundred years. The French Revolution had shaken the foundations of the church. P …

From one of our foremost church historians comes an overarching analysis of the three modern Catholic councils-an assessment of what Catholicism was and has become today.Catholic councils are meeting …

The workings of Western intelligence in our day–whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church–are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we goin …

John W. O’Malley gives us the most comprehensive account ever written of the Society of Jesus in its founding years, one that heightens and transforms our understanding of the Jesuits in history and …

The workings of Western intelligence in our day–whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church–are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we goin …

During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, while its debates generated front-page news on a near- …