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Pasjonująca historia Soboru Watykańskiego II uwzględniająca dokumenty oraz działania osób i grup, które odegrały kluczową rolę w czasie soborowych obrad. Autor - uczestnik tamtych wydarzeń - odkrywa tajemnice jawnych i zakulisowych spotkań i dyskusji, przytacza wiele faktów dotąd nieznanych lub przemilczanych. Stara się zrozumieć intencje i argumenty uczestników Soboru, który w decydujący sposób wpłynął na losy Kościoła i świata w następnych dziesięcioleciach. Książkę o. Wiltgena trzeba więc przeczytać, bo jest ona ważnym głosem w toczącym się sporze o...

Description: The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania, 1825-1850 is the first detailed and documentary history of the seminal period of Roman Catholic missionary activity. Beginning with the founding of the Prefecture Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands in 1825 there was continued development in Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia for the next quarter century. By 1850 this vast area of the South Seas could boast of one archdiocese, eight dioceses, and eight vicariates apostolic. This lively, dramatic narrative is told largely through the words of the...

Description: The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania, 1825-1850 is the first detailed and documentary history of the seminal period of Roman Catholic missionary activity. Beginning with the founding of the Prefecture Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands in 1825 there was continued development in Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia for the next quarter century. By 1850 this vast area of the South Seas could boast of one archdiocese, eight dioceses, and eight vicariates apostolic. This lively, dramatic narrative is told largely through the words of the...

Description: The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1850 to 1875 is the result of Father Ralph Wiltgen's years of archival work in Rome and at the headquarters of religious orders who worked in Micronesia and Melanesia. It follows his first historical book on the subject, The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania: 1825 to 1850, but narrows the focus. The first book dealt with the whole of Oceania and emphasized developments in Polynesia. This book concentrates on Melanesia and Micronesia from 1850 to 1875, the period immediately before the work of...