Pope S Last Case And Other Stories
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Pope S Last Case And Other Stories
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Author : Black Michael A.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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Pope S Last Case And Other Stories
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Author : Michael A. Black
language : en
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Release Date : 2019-01-17
Pope S Last Case And Other Stories written by Michael A. Black and has been published by Crossroad Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-17 with Fiction categories.
Set in the latter half of the fabulous 1940s, Pope’s Last Case and Other Stories details the adventures of tough, hardboiled, ex-Private Eye Vince Pope and his lovely, rich, socialite wife, Laura. Vince, a veteran of WW II, has hung up his PI shingle in favor of a life of leisure, but old pals and new troubles keep interfering. Written as an homage to Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man, this collection of short stories deftly captures the mood and optimism of the country after the Second World War when men were men and the ladies were gorgeous. Join Vince and Laura as they confront gangsters, crimes of passion, crooked politicians, and even a serial killer in this thrill-packed collection of stories that also has the continuity of a novel. Stories included in this collection: Whodunit? A Girl’s Best Friend Between Two Worlds Lost Weekend No Promises Bitter Almonds Knockouts Pope’s Last Case
Pope Awesome And Other Stories
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Author : Cari Donaldson
language : en
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Release Date : 2013-11-15
Pope Awesome And Other Stories written by Cari Donaldson and has been published by Sophia Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with Religion categories.
Take a two-income, quasi-New Age, newlywed couple with two Greyhounds and the resolve never to have children or to embrace any form of organized religion. Add ten years of hunger for "something more." What do you get? A large Catholic family, of course. And one in which in which the second youngest, while watching Pope Benedict depart the Vatican, solemnly declares, "Now I'll be pope: Pope Awesome the First, with my Swiss Guard army. And if my army men don't give me any new video games, I'll punch them in the face." In words often as sassy as those of her little Pope Awesome, Catholic homeschooler Cari Donaldson here relates how her friend's newborn baby, a portrait of the Virgin Mary, and the words of the Miraculous Medal called her forth from a selfish, small way of life into the welcoming arms of the Church. Six children in ten years have banished all her hopes for a tidy secular life, and, in her upscale town, where "Cats, not kids" bumper stickers are seen, have raised countess eyebrows along the way. Undaunted, Cari declares that "If we're to be a traveling carnival freak-show by New England standards, then we're going to be a carnival freak-show for Jesus," although her husband has stopped her from airbrushing onto her van a mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe riding a unicorn over a sparkling river. Above all, Cari tells of the awakening of her love for the Eucharist, the deepening of her love for her husband and her children, and the humility and faith these experiences have nurtured in her. To Jesus she confesses, "You taught me to be open to the lives You wanted to bring into the world through me. I rose above myself just enough to let You bring the blessings of these children into my life. I was sometimes scared and sometimes angry, and always at a loss about how I was going to mother these children, but I knew that it would be Your grace, and not my shortcomings, that would triumph." Through Cari's remarkable tale of her conversion and the peace she's found as a Catholic, you'll be reminded of the many profound, lifelong blessings God gives you through your Faith, and, yes, even through your daily small troubles and unexpected joys . . . like little Pope Awesome punching his Swiss Guards in the face! Cari's tale will lead you to share her conviction that we never know what God has planned for us tomorrow, but, for sure, "it will be better than anything we ourselves could have planned, even in our wildest dreams."
Diamond Cut Diamond A Story Of Tuscan Life And Other Stories
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Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Diamond Cut Diamond A Story Of Tuscan Life And Other Stories written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.
The Pope Who Would Be King
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Author : David I. Kertzer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Pope Who Would Be King written by David I. Kertzer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY categories.
Days after the assassination of his prime minister in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The wave of revolution that had swept through Europe now seemed poised to put an end to the popes' thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not indeed to the papacy itself. Disguising himself as a simple parish priest, Pius escaped through a back door. Climbing inside the Bavarian ambassador's carriage, he embarked on a journey into a fateful exile.Only two years earlier Pius's election had triggered a wave of optimism across Italy. After the repressive reign of the dour Pope Gregory XVI, Italians saw the youthful, benevolent new pope as the man who would at last bring the Papal States into modern times and help create a new, unified Italian nation. But Pius found himself caught between a desire to please his subjects and a fear--stoked by the cardinals--that heeding the people's pleas would destroy the church. The resulting drama--with a colorful cast of characters, from Louis Napoleon and his rabble-rousing cousin Charles Bonaparte to Garibaldi, Tocqueville, and Metternich--was rife with treachery, tragedy, and international power politics.David Kertzer is one of the world's foremost experts on the history of Italy and the Vatican, and has a rare ability to bring history vividly to life. With a combination of gripping, cinematic storytelling, and keen historical analysis rooted in an unprecedented richness of archival sources, The Pope Who Would Be King sheds fascinating new light on the end of rule by divine right in the west and the emergence of modern Europe.
Catalogue Of The Oakland Free Library
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Author : Oakland Free Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
Catalogue Of The Oakland Free Library written by Oakland Free Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.
The She Pope
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Author : Peter Stanford
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-25
The She Pope written by Peter Stanford and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-25 with History categories.
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE ENGLISH WOMAN WHO FOOLED THE VATICAN. The legend of Pope Joan - the woman who, dressed as a man, headed the Catholic church in the early ninth century - has always been a subject of fascinated speculation but rarely, until now, the subject of serious research. As the future over women in the catholic priesthood continues, and the Church, which once took her story as gospel, now tries to play down the rumours, it is time for a reappraisal. Here Peter Stanford, author of The Devil: A Biography, reveals what can, and cannot, be known of this incredible story, and of the extraordinary woman behind it. In this fascinating account, ranging from secret histories to conspiracy theories, medieval carvings to tarot cards, women priests to cross-dressing clerics, and from romantic fiction to hard facts, he delivers a major study of historical detective work.
Pope S Mythologies
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Author : A.D. Cousins
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-05
Pope S Mythologies written by A.D. Cousins and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope’s verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. Pope did not merely use classical (along with non-classical) mythology in his verse as a traditional, richly diverse medium through which to represent the diversity of private and civic life in his day, but he was an ambitious translator as well as refashioner of myth. It is a medium that he shapes anew and variously across all his major poems. This volume enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope’s verse. In doing so it illuminates how, in early eighteenth-century Britain, understandings of what myth is and what it does were taking new directions – not least in response to Baconian thought and its legacy.
Pope Patrick
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Author : Peter De Rosa
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 2011-11-02
Pope Patrick written by Peter De Rosa and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-02 with Fiction categories.
The year is 2009. America has its first Catholic president since Kennedy. The planet's other superpower is the Federation of Islamic Republics, stretching from Morocco to Pakistan. And in Rome, the aging Polish Pope, obstinate and combative to the end, has died, and the conclave of cardinals must choose a successor. After a great deal of argument and debate, they choose the least controversial candidate, the least political, the one least likely to upset the Vatican status quo--Brian O'Flynn, a kindly old Irish priest who reads Yeats and publishes obscure academic theses. At the moment of his election, a 300-pound ornamental pillar falls on his head. Then all hell breaks loose. Pope Patrick is the riotous story of a mild-mannered country cardinal who—through a democratic election, a twist of fate, and a little help from his golden Lab, Charley—turns the Vatican upside down and throws the industrial world into chaos. He deals once and for all with the thorny issues of contraception, the celibacy of the clergy, and the infallibility of the pope; sends the Dow Jones tumbling, and the hopes of the downtrodden soaring-and in the process brings the world to the brink of catastrophe. By turns funny, tender, exciting, and controversial, Pope Patrick is a scathingly brilliant, delightfully droll novel of principles, power, and faith-the story of the holiest, bravest, most likable pope since St. Peter.
Lives Of The Most Eminent Painters Sculptors And Architects Translated From The Italian Of Giorgio Vasari
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Author : Giorgio Vasari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Lives Of The Most Eminent Painters Sculptors And Architects Translated From The Italian Of Giorgio Vasari written by Giorgio Vasari and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with categories.