The journey from impoverished adolescent thug to the cloistered halls of a Catholic seminary.John Cornwell was quick with his fists and intelligent enough to be dangerous. He was headed for a life of crime until a poor parish priest showed him another road. Head of a growing gang of youthful thug...
As he would write in the Apologia, ‘Great events were happening at home and abroad, which brought out into form and passionate expression the various beliefs which had so gradually been winning their way into my mind’. 10 The Reform Act aimed to increase and broaden the British electorate, divers...
—Secret report on the need for a Church council, commissioned by Pope Paul III in 1536, quoted in John W. O’Malley, Trent: What Happened at the Council FOR TWO DECADES OF THE MID-SIXTEENTH CENTURY, THE ancient walled city of Trent, high in the bracing air of the Tyrol, was the scene for the Churc...