Faith and Leadership

Chapter 1: The Primitive Church
Chapter 2: From Bishop to Pope (Peter to Leo the Great, 500 A.D.)
Chapter 3: The Threats to Orthodoxy
Chapter 4: Beyond the End of the Empire, 500-800
Chapter 5: The Medieval Papacy Looks East
Chapter 6: Abuses and Reform, 800-1000
Chapter 7: The Papal Monarchy, 1000-1500
Chapter 8: The Worldly Popes
Chapter 9: The Protestant Reformation
Chapter 10: The Timidity of Reform
Chapter 11: The Catholic Reformation
Chapter 12: The Council as a Reform Movement
Chapter 13: Religious Wars and Religious Repression
Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
Chapter 15: The Church Confronts the Leviathan
Chapter 16: The Church and the Ancien Regime
Chapter 17: The Emperor's Attack on the Papacy
Chapter 18: Pius IX: The First Modern Pope
Chapter 19: Leo XIII: The Soul of the Industrial State
Chapter 20: Pius X: Moods of Piety and Repression
Chapter 21: Benedict XV and the Mad Dogs of War
Chapter 22: Pius XI and the New Men of Violence
Chapter 23: Pius XII and the Spiritual Twilight of the West
Chapter 24: John XXII and the Promise of Aggiornamento
Chapter 25: Paul VI: The Perils of Aggiornamento
Chapter 26: John Paul II: The Uneasy Agenda of Restoration
Postscript: Benedict XVI
Conclusion