Writing as a Catholic priest, Cunningham surveys the long conflict between the Church and hostile European states: the Reformation and Jansenism, the seizures and persecutions of 1789, the Roman upheavals of the nineteenth century, Bismarck’s Kulturkampf in Germany, and the secularising laws of the French Third Republic. Documents, speeches and decrees are quoted at length.
An openly partisan but richly documented account of church-state struggle, valuable for seeing how Catholics of 1910 understood their century. Download the free EPUB.