Catholicism, John T. McGreevy
Catholicism, John T. McGreevy
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Catholicism
A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

Author: John T. McGreevy

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 19 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/27/2022

Synopsis

The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world.

Through powerful individual stories and sweeping birds-eye views, Catholicism provides a mesmerizing assessment of the Church's complex role in modern history: both shaper and follower of the politics of nation states, both conservator of hierarchies and evangelizer of egalitarianism.

Throughout this essential volume, McGreevy details currents of reform within the Church as well as movements protective of traditional customs and beliefs. Conflicts with political leaders and a devotional revival in the nineteenth-century, the experiences of decolonization after World War II and the Second Vatican Council in the twentieth century, and the trauma of clerical sexual abuse in the twenty-first all demonstrate how religion shapes our modern world. Finally, McGreevy addresses the challenges faced by Pope Francis as he struggles to unite the over one billion members of the world's largest religious community.

About John T. McGreevy

John T. McGreevy is provost and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame and the award-winning author of three books on Catholicism and many essays. His work has been published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, Commonwealth, and other outlets. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lydia on June 08, 2023

John T. McGreevy what a great writer. My husband couldn't wait for me to finished your wonderful book so he could read it. I was flipping though the pages pretty fast but he wasn't for my husband's sake it was because I couldn't put this book down. Throughout this essential volume, McGreevy details......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on March 31, 2023

Mr. McGreevy well documented his account of the Catholic Church in decline since the French Revolution to date. It is a historical fact that the hierarchy of the French Catholic Church were of the nobility. The Church was opposed to the Revolution in 1789. Ultramontanists was the term defined for de......more

Goodreads review by Megan on May 21, 2023

I chose to give this book a solid five star rating because it does, in my opinion, what very few other books on history, (especially) religious history, purport to do: write about the subject at hand in an academic, matter-of-fact, non-biased manner. I wanted a history of the Catholic Church post Fre......more

Goodreads review by Joe on October 05, 2022

John T. McGreevy has succeeded in a monumental telling of some 230 years of Roman Catholic Church History. Some of the topics are threads that run for decades, such as Ultramontanism and, separately, the contributions of Jacques Maritain. All sorts of tidbits interested me. Page 73: Gregory XVI sided......more

Goodreads review by Sandie on November 11, 2023

McGreevy, historian and the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost at the University of Notre Dame,has written an astounding history of The Catholic Church from the eve of The French Revolution to the papacy of Francis I and the Church's encounter with the secular world and the rise of Latinx, African, an......more

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