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Author: John L. Allen, Jr. (Associate Editor, ^IBoston Globe^R, Associate Editor, ^IBoston Globe^R, Senior Vatican analyst, CNN, Denver, USA)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 20.60cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780199379804
ISBN 10: 0199379807
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 22 May 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Reviews of the previous edition: An excellent handbook for those who want (or need) to know more about the Catholic Church and for those who think they already know it all. -- Publishers Weekly John Allen is the English-speaking world's most informed, most insightful and most balanced commentator on the Roman Catholic Church today. --America''Paints a fair-minded picture of the Roman Catholic strain of the faith, its beliefs, its worship and its structures. [Allen] gets behind the image of stern Catholic uniformity and begins to show what a remarkably diverse body this really is.'' --Times Literary Supplement Allen's engaging writing keeps readers' attention and interest... Highly recommended. --CHOICE The best Anglophone Vatican reporter ever. --George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II The journalist other reporters-and not a few cardinals-look to for the inside story on how all the pope's men direct the world's largest church. --Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek The most authoritative writer on Vatican affairs in the English language. --The Tablet
Reviews of the previous edition: An excellent handbook for those who want (or need) to know more about the Catholic Church and for those who think they already know it all. -- Publishers Weekly John Allen is the English-speaking world's most informed, most insightful and most balanced commentator on the Roman Catholic Church today. --America ''Paints a fair-minded picture of the Roman Catholic strain of the faith, its beliefs, its worship and its structures. [Allen] gets behind the image of stern Catholic uniformity and begins to show what a remarkably diverse body this really is.'' --Times Literary Supplement Allen's engaging writing keeps readers' attention and interest... Highly recommended. --CHOICE The best Anglophone Vatican reporter ever. --George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II The journalist other reporters-and not a few cardinals-look to for the inside story on how all the pope's men direct the world's largest church. --Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek The most authoritative writer on Vatican affairs in the English language. --The Tablet
"Reviews of the previous edition: ""An excellent handbook for those who want (or need) to know more about the Catholic Church and for those who think they already know it all."" -- Publishers Weekly ""John Allen is the English-speaking world's most informed, most insightful and most balanced commentator on the Roman Catholic Church today.""--America ''Paints a fair-minded picture of the Roman Catholic strain of the faith, its beliefs, its worship and its structures. [Allen] gets behind the image of stern Catholic uniformity and begins to show what a remarkably diverse body this really is.'' --Times Literary Supplement ""Allen's engaging writing keeps readers' attention and interest... Highly recommended."" --CHOICE ""The best Anglophone Vatican reporter ever.""--George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II ""The journalist other reporters-and not a few cardinals-look to for the inside story on how all the pope's men direct the world's largest church.""--Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek ""The most authoritative writer on Vatican affairs in the English language.""--The Tablet"
Author Information
John L. Allen Jr. is an Associate Editor at the Boston Globe and the Senior Vatican Analyst for CNN, and was previously Senior Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter. He is also the author of seven books on the Vatican and Catholic affairs, including The Future Church: How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church and All the Pope's Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks. His most recent book is The Global War on Christians.
