Modras explores the influence of Renaissance humanism on Ignatian spirituality revealing its relevance in today's world through the lives of Jesuit heroes Matteo Ricci, Friederich Spee, Karl Rahner, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Pedro Arrupe.

Interwar Poland was home to more Jews than any other country in Europe. Its commonplace but simplistic identification with antisemitism was due largely to nationalist efforts to boycott Jewish business. That they failed was not for want of support by the Catholic clergy, for whom the "Jewish question" was more than economic. The myth of a Masonic-Jewish alliance to subvert Christian culture first flourished in France but held considerable sway over Catholics in 1930s Poland as elsewhere. This book examines how, following Vatican policy, Polish church leaders resisted separation of church and...