A History of the Popes: Saints and Sinners

"[A] minor masterpiece which is everything good, popular history ought to be. . . . The most comprehensive single-volume history of the popes in print."--John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph (on the previous edition) "[T]races the history of the papacy from its humble beginnings . . . with St. Peter, to the distinctly different institution . . . [of] today."--Washington Post Book World