In the wake of the Enlightenment and not long after the French had declared their Republic on the edge of a guillotine, Pope Pius IX and his mercurial personality brushed Italian skies with hope, ...
On Feb. 7, the Catholic Church remembers Blessed Pius IX, “Pius Nono,” the 255th pope. His pontificate is the second longest in history — a total of 31 years, seven months, and 22 days (June 16, ...
Kertzer, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Pope Pius XI (The Pope and Mussolini), expertly captures the tension of a deeply devout population, loyal to their church but receptive to the ...
Dec. 8, 2020, marks the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pius IX proclaiming St. Joseph as “Patron of the Universal Church.” The timing was providential, for several reasons. The date also celebrated the ...
Pope Pius IX, the last of the popes with temporal power over the Papal States. (Credit: CNS.) Listen ROME – Today marks the 173 rd anniversary of a milestone moment in the modern history of the ...
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David I. Kertzer, The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe (New York: Random House, 2018), 512 pp., $35.00. ANYONE FAMILIAR with the nearly 2,000 year ...
In 1881, as the burial procession of Pope Pius IX (1792-1878) neared the Tiber River in Rome, anticlerical protesters breached the escort and attempted to throw the papal bier into the murky water.
For the first time in the English-speaking world, the incredible story of Edgardo Mortara is told in his own words through the new book, KIDNAPPED BY THE VATICAN? His story is one that reverberated ...
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