The Belvedere's Sculpture Garden
For centuries that most important sculpture garden in the world was located in the Vatican. Many people find it a bit strange that the Vatican museum is filled with nude sculptures of ancient gods. This is nothing new; the papal collection of ... [... more]
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John L. Allen, Jr.
JOHN L. ALLEN is the Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and a Vatican analyst for CNN and National Public Radio. He is the author of The Rise of Benedict XVI and All the Pope's Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really ... [... more]
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Thomas Gifford
It is 1982. In the Vatican, priestly vultures gather around the dying Pope, whispering the names of possible successors. In a forgotten monastery on Ireland's gale-swept coast, a dangerous document is hidden, waiting to be claimed. And in a ... [... more]
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George Weigel
GEORGE WEIGEL, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America's foremost commentators on issues of religion and public life. A Newsweek contributor and Vatican analyst for ... [... more]
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James L. Stanfield
For almost a year, veteran National Geographic photographer Jim Stanfield captured nearly every corner of the Vatican, both the world's smallest country and the center of the Roman Catholic Church. Along with author Bart McDowell, he provides an ... [... more]
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Mary Ann Glendon
Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. She led the Vatican delegation to the Beijing Women's Rights conference in 1995, the first woman ever to lead a Vatican delegation, and has been featured on Bill Moyers's ... [... more]
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From the Vatican to Vegas: A History of Special Effects
 an ingenious, original, useful, groundbreaking work: Not only students and scholars of the history of art, architecture, film, animation, western culture can rejoice at the publication of Norman Klein's epic and illuminating history of special effects [... more]
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Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from ...
Well worth the read: Professor Alvarez has done his homework, although I do believe his presentation on how the Vatican has conducted its intelligence does not actually reflect the sometime morbid tone Vatican efforts sometimes undertook. I believe [... more]
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The Vatican's Cortile del Belvedere
The Vatican's Cortile del Belvedere was one of the most revolutionary gardens ever created. The engraving at the top of this article is by Hendrick van Schoel and dates from 1579. It shows the Cortile del Belvedere with the Vatican gardens ... [... more]
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Murder in the Vatican: The Revolutionary Life of John ...
The Truth about the 33 day Pope: One would wonder why the Vatican goes out of its way to bury the liberal identity of the 33-day pope? Could it be it wants to bury its ecclesiastical motive for murder? For example, recently the Vatican Secretary of State, [... more]
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Vatican and the Red Flag: The Struggle for the Soul of ...
Unusually valuable survey of recent history: No review can indicate this survey's range: a range achieved without waste of wood pulp, since at 351 dense pages - including lavish footnote references - the publication is decidedly on the epigrammatic side. [... more]
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What Went Wrong with Vatican II: The Catholic Crisis ...
Very Repetitive: I felt that the author stretched the focus of this book by repeating the main point of the book over and over again. I would have perferred to learn more about how this problem came about in the first place and maybe how and why other [... more]
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