The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bishop Sedgwick Daniels.

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Cajetan's biblical commentaries : motive and method by O'Connor, Michael, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Friar, Professor, Papal Courtier (1469-1512); ‎Chapter 2. Prelate, Diplomat, Biblical Scholar (1513-1534); ‎Part 2. …”
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Incunabula in transit : people and trade by Hellinga, Lotte

Table of Contents: “…Book auctions in the fifteenth century -- Advertising and selling books in the fifteenth century -- Nicolas Jenson, Peter Schoeffer and the development of printing types -- Peter Schoeffer: publisher and bookseller -- The Mainz Catholicon 1460-1470: an experiment in book production and the book trade -- Fragments found in bindings: the complexity of evidence for the earliest Dutch typography -- Prelates in print -- William Caxton, Colard Mansion and the printer in type 1 -- Wynkyn de Worde's native land -- Aesopus moralisatus, Antwerp, 1488 in England -- An early eighteenth-century sale of Mainz incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicans -- A Caxton tract-volume from Thomas Rawlinson's library -- Buying incunabula in Venice and Milan: the Bibliotheca Smithiana.…”
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L'attrape-chance : Le récit d'un homme qui s'est battu contre le cancer. by Eudes, Dominique

Table of Contents: “…Couverture; Page de titre; Préface; Un peu d'eau dans mon vin; Un radiologue nommé Michel-Ange; La perfusion d'amitié; La douleur est volatile; Les petites vies dans l'âme; " Mon mari n'est pas une souris "; La molécule à voyager dans le temps; La théorie de la chance; Les leucocytes aux bains de mer; Les inconséquences du cœur; Quand les crabes changent d'armure; Des doigts de prélat dans mes poumons; Chez le même éditeur en numérique; Copyright…”
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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bishop Vashti McKenzie.

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Clerical celibacy : the heritage by Phipps, William E., 1930-2010

Table of Contents: “…: arguments pro and con : His sexual orientation -- The apostolic era : Paul's letters and other New Testament writings -- The patristic era : movement toward sexual abstinence : monasticism and Jerome : -- Augustine's anti-sex theology -- The medieval era : Roman-Byzantine schism over clerical marriage : papal attempts to put asunder espoused clerics -- From Luther to Paul VI : the anti-celibate Protestants, the counter-Reformation -- Vatican II and aftermath -- The contemporary era : John Paul II's intransigence : diocese problems, abusive prelates -- Conclusion: the heritage in summary : on imitating Jesus : moving toward recovery.…”


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A history of the Catholic Church in the American South : 1513-1900 by Woods, James M., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Cross and sword : the Spanish Catholic mission to La Florida, 1513-1763 -- Padres, prairies, and piney woods : Catholicism in Spanish Texas, 1519-1763 -- Fleur-de-lis : Catholicism in French lower Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, 1673-1763 -- To the manor born : Catholics in the southern English colonies, 1633-1763 -- The Carroll era : southern Catholics and the new American republic, 1763-1815 -- Church and state : the erosion of European empires in the South, 1763-1821 -- Annexation and accommodation : Catholic growth within the expanding South, 1815-1845 -- From aliens to Confederates : Catholics in the South, 1845-1865 -- A regional religion : Catholic prelates in the postbellum South, 1865-1900 -- Migrations, movements, and ministry : Catholicism in the South, 1845-1900.…”


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Michelangelo in the new millennium : conversations about artistic practice, patronage and Christianity

Table of Contents: “…The Pitti Tondo: A "Sibylline" Madonna / Emily Fenichel -- Christ-Bearers and Seers of the Period Ante Legem: On the Male Nudes in Michelangelo's Doni Tondo and Sistine Ceiling Frescoes / Jonathan Kline -- Papal Patronage: The Pauls. Virtuous Prelates, Burdensome Relics and a Sliver of Gold in the Last Judgment / Erin Sutherland Minter -- Michelangelo the "Lefty": The Cappella Paolina, the Expulsion Drawings, and Marcello Venusti / Margaret Kuntz -- Coda. …”
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The waning of the green : catholics, the Irish, and identity in Toronto, 1887-1922 by McGowan, Mark George, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Life in the Queen's City -- 2 Prelates, Priests, and Professors: The Rise of a Home-Grown Church -- 3 A View from the Pew: Lay Initiative in Toronto -- 4 Nurseries of Catholics and Canadians: Toronto's Separate Schools -- 5 For God and Country: Lay Associations and Catholic Identity -- 6 Tribunes of the People: The Catholic Press, Politics, and Identity -- 7 Newcomers and Nationalists: Defending and Extending an English-speaking Catholic Vision…”
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Religion, society, and politics in France since 1789

Table of Contents: “…McMillan -- The Catholic Church and the business community in nineteenth-century France / Colin Heywood -- The emergence of Catholic politics in the Midi, 1830-70 / Brian Fitzpatrick -- Why Republicans and Catholics couldn't stand each other in the nineteenth century / Ralph Gibson -- Catholics versus Freemasons in late nineteenth-century France / Geoffrey Cubitt -- Socialism and Catholicism in France : Jaurès, Guesde and the Dreyfus Affair / Clive Castaldo -- The politics of legality : the religious orders in France, 1901-45 / Nicholas Atkin -- Church and state : prelates, theologians and the Vichy regime / W.D. Halls.…”
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Puritanism and its discontents

Table of Contents: “…Aspects of Puritanism in the English revolution / John Morrill -- Prelates and politics : uses of "Puritan," 1625-40 / Dwight Brautigam -- Of Philistines and Puritans : Matthew Arnold's construction of Puritanism / John Netland -- Anti-Calvinists and the Republican threat in early Stuart Cambridge / Margo Todd -- The Emmanuel College, Cambridge, election of 1622 : the constraints of a Puritan institution / Steven R. …”


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Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Bill Moyers

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Bill Moyers

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Dante and Milton : envisioned visionaries

Table of Contents: “…Envisioning Visionaries: The Cultural Construction of Dante and Milton / Christoph Lehner and Christoph Singer -- "Swaggering in the fore-top of the State": Milton, the Prelates and the Protestant Dante, from Lycidas to Of Reformation / Nick Havely -- On His Blindness: Milton's Reputation in the Nineteenth Century / Andrew Sanders -- Milton and the Question of National Identity: Political Reality and Ideal Conceptions / Eliza Richter -- Milton in Material Culture / Christoph Ehland -- "Unteaches conquer'd Nations to Rebel, by Singing, how their Stubborn Parents fell": Exploring and Exporting John Milton in the Long Eighteenth Century / Anne-Julia Zwierlein -- "Heretics in the Truth": Miltonic Echoes in Edward Young's Conjectures on Original Composition / Christoph Singer -- "With Fry Innumerable Swarm": Reading Milton as Intertext in Nineteenth-Century Popular Science / Alison E. …”
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The Best Australian Bush Stories. by Haynes, Jim

Table of Contents: “…THE REIGN OF EUGENE HAMBENEFIT OF CLERGY; A SABBATH MORN AT WADDY; BILL'S RELIGION; EVERYONE LIKED FATHER CONNOLLY; FIRST CONFESSION; THE PARSON'S BLACKBOY; 'THE PARSON AND THE PRELATE'; PART 7: THE CONQUERING BUSH; 'SPINIFEX'; THE FIRST BUSH FIRE; THE DROVER'S WIFE; MALLEE; AN ERROR IN ADMINISTRATION; THE FEUD; THE CONQUERING BUSH; RATS; 'THE WIND THAT BURIES THE DEAD'; PART 8: THE NIGHT WE WATCHED FOR WALLABIES; 'PICKING LEMONS'; THE NIGHT WE WATCHED FOR WALLABIES; CRUTCHING THE RAMS; CONVERSATION IN A PANTRY; POSSUM GULLY; OLD HEINRICH AND THE LAMBING EWE; 'SUCCESS'…”
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The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1540-1605. by Grendler, Paul F.

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The revenge of Thomas Eakins by Kirkpatrick, Sidney D.

Table of Contents: “…I: Master and apprentice -- The Eakins family of Philadelphia -- Master Benjamin -- The art of the penman -- An uncertain future -- The medical arts and the fine arts -- The Pennsylvania academy -- A dangerous young Adonis -- From temple to palace -- Heads and hands -- Letters home -- Rough around the edges -- The artist and his muse -- Picture making -- II: Artist and educator -- The road less traveled -- Champion oarsman -- The Biglin brothers racing -- Hikers and hunters -- Uncompromising realism -- A good and decent girl -- The blood-covered scalpel -- A degradation of art -- Painting heads -- The unflinching eye -- Talk of the town -- Nymph in the fountain -- The open door -- A May morning in the park -- Jerusalem in New Jersey -- Tripod and easel -- Nudes and prudes -- The lovely young men of Dove Lake -- III: Exposed and expelled -- Philanthropists and philistines -- The hanging committee -- Point of no return -- Demons and demigods -- The family skeleton -- Black care -- The bard of Camden -- A league of his own -- Dressed and undressed -- Portrait by a modern master -- Horrors of the dissecting table -- Casting for commissions -- The Pied Piper of Philadelphia -- IV: Forgiven and forgotten -- Portrait of a physicist -- Down for the count -- Outlaw in an undershirt -- Pictured lives -- Pontiffs and prelates -- Return to rush -- Artist in residence.…”
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The boys of the Archangel Raphael : a youth confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785 by Eisenbichler, Konrad

Table of Contents: “…""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION: Boys in Hoods""; ""1 A City of Confraternities""; ""2 The Founding of the Arcangelo Raffaello and the Development of Youth Confraternities in Florence""; ""3 At the Ospedale della Scala (14305â€?1530)""; ""4 Prelates, Princes, and Priors""; ""5 The Move to Santa Maria Novella""; ""6 Rebirth""; ""7 The Confraternity and the Post-Tridentine Church""; ""8 Statutes and Administrative Structures""; ""9 Membership""; ""10 The Teaching of Christian Doctrine""; ""11 Religious Rituals""; ""12 Confraternity Feasts and Devotions""…”
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What about Darwin? : all species of opinion from scientists, sages, friends, and enemies who met, read, and discussed the naturalist who changed the world by Glick, Thomas F.

Table of Contents: “…Conway -- American president / Calvin Coolidge -- American paleontologist / Edward Drinker Cope -- English historian and prelate / Mandell Creighton -- Brazilian poet / Joao Cruze Sousa -- D -- American geologist / James Dwight Dana -- American author and lawyer / Richard Henry Dana -- Russian naturalist / Nikolai Danilevsky -- Canadian geologist and paleobotanist / John William Dawson.…”
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Stephen Langton : Erzbischof von Canterbury im England der Magna Carta (1207-1228) by Baumann, Daniel, 1978 May 26-

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