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Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church

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Description for Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church paperback. This work affords an account of the people, the politics and the organization behind the Vatican, looking at the almost Byzantine bureaucracy. It shows how popes are elected, bishops appointed, how dissident theologians are disciplined and civil authorities dealt with. Num Pages: 322 pages, 5 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSV; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.

There are one billion Catholics in the world today, spread over every continent, speaking almost every conceivable language, and all answering to a single authority. The Vatican is a unique international organization, both in terms of its extraordinary power and influence, and in terms of its endurance. Popes come and go, but the elaborate and complex bureaucracy called the Vatican lives on. For centuries, it has served and sometimes undermined popes; it has been praised and blamed for the actions of the pope and for the state of the church. Yet an objective examination of the workings of the Vatican ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674932616
SKU
V9780674932616
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About Thomas J. Reese
Thomas J. Reese, S.J., is a Jesuit scholar with a doctorate in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Editor-in-Chief of America, the national Catholic weekly magazine, and author of, among other books, Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Church.

Reviews for Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church
Thomas Reese does an admirable job of lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding the Holy See to examine the nuts and bolts of the operation… [He] paints a revealingly human portrait of Vatican life… Ultimately, this is the merit of Inside the Vatican: Reese gets it right. And in [such] a place…that’s no easy task.
Greg Burke
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