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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Pope Benedict's final days and Francis' battle to set the church on a new path. Pope Benedict made history when he announced his resignation, becoming the first Pope to step down voluntarily in six hundred years. In his wake he left a bitterly divided Vatican mired in scandals. But is Benedict's successor, Pope Francis, taming the forces that helped destroy Benedict's papacy? Is he succeeding in lifting the Church out of crisis? Nearly a year in the...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Francis Bacon is the essential British painter of the twentieth century. From the end of the Second World War until his death in 1992, he created an extraordinary body of intense and uncompromising figure paintings and portraits. Drawing on diverse influences including Picasso, Velasquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X, the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge and Sergei Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin, Bacon undertook a pitiless analysis in paint...
4) Elizabeth
Language
English
Description
England, 1554. Henry VIII is dead. The country is divided, Catholic against Protestant. Henry's eldest daughter Mary, a fervent Catholic, is Queen. She is childless. The Catholics' greatest fear is the succession of Mary's Protestant half-sister, Elizabeth. After Mary's death, Elizabeth ascends to the throne, thrust into an edgy world of political and religious flux she struggles to protect her power, life, and independence as the court boils with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Pope Francis address the ten most pressing issues the world is facing today. His prayer are intended to inspire action to radically unify humanity in hope for a peaceful future. In presenting his hopes and dreams for the Church and the world, Pope Francis offers a wake-up call for all of humanity, a practical path toward unity, and a lighthouse of hope in the darkest of eras. -- adapted from publisher info
"The long-awaited, beloved Pope Francis'...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Loupio is a young orphan, musician, and poet who lives in Italy in the thirteenth century. His two best friends are Francis of Assisi and Brother Wolf. Ever roaming the roads of Italy, sincere and big-hearted Loupio experiences a thousand encounters and adventures"--Page 4 of cover.
Loupio, a young, thirteenth-century orphan, musician, and poet, travels through Italy with his friends Francis of Assisi and Brother Wolf, encountering dangers and challenges...
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