Catholicism - John T. McGreevy

In dramatic stories and sweeping panoramas, distinguished historian John T. McGreevy tells the mesmerizing story of a Church torn between the forces of reform and reaction for the past 250 years. Anti-monarchist French clerics celebrated the Revolution, but the murder of priests and destruction of churches in the Terror galvanized a powerful conservative reaction that reverberates to this day. Missionaries around the world greatly expanded the Church's influence while bringing new tensions between a culturally diverse syncretism and the ultimate authority of Rome. The aspirations of the faithful for justice in this world--African Catholics fighting for independence, Latin Americans developing a theology of liberation, Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding democratic governments--challenged the politically cautious. The cataclysms of the Second World War, decolonization, the
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