“Informed text with vastly more detail [than other papal histories].” - New York Times Book Review
“This short encyclopedia... is an indispensable reference.” - Newsweek
The Pocket Guide to the Popes
The Pontiffs from St. Peter to John Paul
Genres
Released2009
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN9780061763663
SellerHarperCollins
About the author(s)
Richard P. McBrien is Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Educated at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he has also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. A leading authority on Catholicism, he is the bestselling author of Catholicism, Lives of the Popes, and Lives of the Saints, as well as the general editor of The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism. Most recently a consultant for ABC News, McBrien offers regular commentary on all the major television networks. He is also a prizewinning syndicated columnist in the Catholic press.
