Through the winter and spring of 1869–70, three well-placed observers in Rome sent reports on the First Vatican Council to a friend in Germany, who annotated them and published them under the name Quirinus in the Allgemeine Zeitung. The letters follow the bishops, the curia and the pope as the minority struggled against the decree of papal infallibility.
A partisan but invaluable chronicle of a turning point in modern Catholicism, for church historians and anyone curious about Vatican politics. Download the free EPUB.