Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope FrancisA magisterial history of the centuries long conflict between progress and tradition in the worlds largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic