Table of Contents

Acts of Peter; Africa and the Papacy; Alexander I-VIII; Animals; Antioch; Antipope; Apartments, Papal; Appeal to Pope; Artists, Foreign, in Rome; Assassination; Attempts against the Pope; Avignon (Papacy of); Banking and the Papacy; Beautification; Biretta, Cardinal's; Blessed Sword; Boniface I-X; Bull; Caius (or Gaius); Calender; Canon Law; Cardinal; Cardinal Nephew; Carnival; Castrati of the Papal Chapel; Catacombs; Censure; Canonical; Cinema, Popes and; Colosseum; Consistorial Advocate; Councils, Ecumenical; Crusades; Dante; Deacons; Deposition of a Pope; Dionysius; Dispensation; Easter-Date Controversies; Elections, Papal; Encyclical; Eugene I-IV; Evangelization; Ex Cathedra; Excavations in St. Peter's; Expective Grace; Fabian; Feasts of Papal Rome; Fisherman's Ring (Anulus Piscatoris); Flabellum; Forgeries; Freemasonry; Funerals; Furnishings; Games; Gentlemen of His Holiness; Gloves; Gospels, the, and Papal Power; Great Schism of the West (1348-1417); Gregory I-XVI; Guelphs; Habemus Papam; Hadrian I-VI; Helsinki; Heraldry; Heresies; Holy Roman Empire; Holy See or Apostolistic See; Humor; Image of Rome in Literature; Imprimatur; Incardination; Indulgences; Infallability; Innocent I-XIII; Jesuits; Joan (Pope); Jurisdictionalism; Keys; Kulturkampf; Laity (Middle Ages); Latinity; Leonine City; Letters to the Pope; Liberalism; Magisterium; Marxism and the Papacy; Mass, Papal; Master of the Sacred Place; Military Ordinariates; Missal, Tridentine; Missions; Modernism; Mosaics; Museums, Vatican; Napoleonic Empire and the Papacy; Navy, Papal; Nicholas I-V; Noble Guard; Nuncio; Oldest Daughter of the Church; Opus Dei; Oxford; Palatine; Papal Ceremonial; Papistry; Patronage, Papal; Paul I-VI; Penalities, Ecclesiastical; Persecutions; Peter's Pence; Photography; Plague and the Papacy; Popemobile; Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity; Quietism; Reform, Catholic; Regalia; Registers, Papal; Resignation; Rose, Golden; Sabinian; Saracens; Scriptor; Secret, Pontifical; See, Vacant and Impeded; Seminaries; Simony; Sistine Chapel; Social Documents; Swaddling Clothes, Consecrated; Synod of Bishops; Telephone; Theocracy, Papal (Middle Ages); Tiara; Tithe; Traveler's Views of Rome and the Vatican; Travels of John Paul II; Turks; Urban I-VIII; Ursinus; Vatican City State; Vatican Radio; Vestments; Veto; Vicariate, Apostolic; World War, Second; Zephyrinus

Reviews

"Contains much that is profitable, and even entertaining, for the historian and the merely curious. Like rich stew, The Papacy has more then enough in it to satisfy many tastes." -- The Journal of Religion
"An impressive 3-volume work... This Encyclopedia, the most complete and authoritative on the papacy yet published, can be highly recommended to academic libraries, seminaries, and religious institutes." -- American Reference Books Annual
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"This encyclopedia should become the standard source on the subject... Highly recommended for public, academic, and religious collections." -- Library Journal (starred review)
"Will become the reference source of choice... For many libraries that focus on religious studies, this encyclopedia may be seen as essential." -- Against theGrain