title: The Encyclopedia of the Vatican and Papacy
author: Frank J. Coppa
description: Grade 9 Up-Although these clear, brief articles emphasize the Vatican from the Renaissance to the 1900s, this volume covers every pope from Peter to John Paul II. Most of the entries are 200 to 300 words in length though some ("Holocaust and the Papacy," for instance) are several pages long. Each article ends with a bibliography, and appendixes provide lists of the popes, the antipopes, and Ecumenical Councils. While the entries are informative and readable, fact discrepancies warrant owning other books on this topic. For example, the article on Nicholas the III states that "Dante praises Nicholas for his efforts to join the houses of Anjou and Hapsburg..."; while in The Inferno, the poet discovers Nicholas-with the other Simonists-in the third chasm of Hell, head down in a narrow hole. The article on Gregory the III lists his feast day as November 28th (as does the Britannica) but Butler's Lives of the Saints (Liturgical) and the Pocket Dictionary of Saints (Image, 1983) both list it as December 10th. For collections with other books on the subject, such as Monika Hellig and Michael Glazier's Modern Catholic Encyclopedia (Liturgical, 1994) or Richard McBrien's Lives of the Popes (HarperCollins, 1997), this book will make a useful addition. However, it should not be a library's only source on one of the most important elements of Western history.<br /><i>Herman Sutter, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, TX </i><br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY 
  Etienne Gilson 
  
  Elements of Christian Philosophy 
  ETIENNE GILSON 
  Member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas 
  Rome 
  Director of Studies in the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 
  Toronto 
  DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. 
  Garden City, New York 
  
  Nihil obstat: Armand Maurer, C.S.B., Censor Deputatus 
  Imprimatur: James C. Cardinal McGuigan, D.D., Archbishop of 
  Tor onto 
  Date: 14 November 1959 
  A cknonxle dgmen ts: 
  The author wishes to thank the following publishers for permission to 
  use materials under their copyright: Doubleday & Company, Inc., for 
  permission to quote from St. Thomas’ On the Truth of the Catholic 
  Faith, Book I, tr. A. C. Pegis, and Book II, tr. J. F. Anderson (Garden 
  City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955 and 1956); B. H