Title: At Your Fingertips: Volume Three The Catholic Counter-Reformation  Author: Msgr. Laurence J. Spiteri, JCD, PhD  ISBN 10: 0-8189-1322-3  ISBN 13: 978-0-8189-1322-8  Paperback: xvi + 320 pp.  Price: $19.95 + shipping  To Order call:  1 800-343-ALBA (2522)  Please have your Master  or Visa card ready To order online click here.

Only a person with faith can conclude that the Holy Spirit protected and led the Catholic Church during the turbulent years before, during and after the momentous Council of Trent. There were during this period political and religious wars and intrigues on a grand scale, the unbecoming private life of some Popes, robust papal nepotism, re-drawing of Europe's map, serious attempts at inner Church reform, intense missionary activities, martyrdom, new scientific discoveries, and so forth. On the human level, there was every cause and reason for the Catholic Church to disappear. But she did not. History supplies the fact that the Catholic Church survived and grew despite everything. Faith supplies the reason for her survival. This book, the third in its series, provides its reader with major Church events, with religious and secular personages, and with a flavor of what took place during the time of the Counter-Reformation. The Catholic Church confronted its failings, became renewed and refreshed, and spread beyond Europe. The author hopes to lead the reader to embark on further study and research in Catholic Church history once major Church events and significant persons are at the fingertips.

 

Msgr. Laurence J. Spiteri, JCD, PhD is presently in charge of the legal office of the Vatican Apostolic Library and a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Roman See. The author of At Your Fingertips, Volume One: A History of the Roman Catholic Church Until the Council of Trent (ST PAULS / Alba House, 2008), At Your Fingertips, Volume Two: The Triumphs and Intrigues of the Renaissance Popes (ST PAULS / Alba House, 2009), The Ten Commandments: A Positive Approach Toward Catholic Morality, Lifestyle and Attitude (ST PAULS / Alba House, 2007) and The Code in the Hands of the Laity: Canon Law for Everyone (ST PAULS / Alba House, 1997), he was most recently one of the contributors to the book A Priest for All Liturgical Seasons (ST PAULS / Alba House, 2009). He has likewise authored a number of publications in a variety of languages and is the translator into English of the very fine work of Cardinal Pierre Philippe, The Virgin Mary and the Priesthood (ST PAULS / Alba House, 1993). Reviews Top of Page