An updated version of the critically acclaimed and best selling reference work first published in 1995 Still the most comprehensive single volume compendium on the Church s past from Pentecost morning to today s pontiff OSV s Encyclopedia of Catholic History Revised gives you Some 2 750 entries based on more than 1000 sources An easy to use alphabetical format and a reader friendly style Cross references for finding additional information A trusted resource on which students from grade school to graduate school can rely Each entry has been examined for improvement or updating and more than two hundred items have been added New features include The latest encyclicals and papal documents Evangelium Vitae Ut Unum Sint Fides et Ratio Ecclessia de Ducharistia and more Biographies of the most recently canonized and beatified such as Padre Pio Josemaria Escriva and Mother Teresa Histories of Catechetics the Divine Office and the Marian Year And more In