The Vatican
Subtitle: The Center of Government of the Catholic World
Publisher: D. Appleton and Co.
Published: 1913
Place of publication: New York, USA
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PART I; title: CHAPTER; title: I. — The Palace of the Vatican 1; title: History and Brief Description of the Edifice — The Personages of the Pontifical Family — The Personnel of the Pontifical Chapel — The Palatine Administration.; title: II. — The Pope 27; title: The Supreme Head of the Church — The Doctrine of Papal Infallibility — The Election of the Pontiff — The Church as a Perfect Society — The Pontifical Orders — The Life of Pius X — His Innumerable Occupations.; title: III. — The Popes Chief Collaborators 44; title: The Sacred College of Cardinals: Bishops, Priests and Deacons — The Cardinal Secretary of State — The Apostolic Nuncios and Legates — The Cardinal Vicar — The Cardinal Grand Penitentiary — The Cardinal Prefects of the Sacred Congregations — The Administration of Papal Finances — Peter's Pence.; title: IV. — The Roman Curia 58; title: The Reorganization of the Curia by Pius X — The Office System of the Curia — The Pontifical Ministerial Departments or Sacred Congregations — The Ecclesiastical Tribunals — The Bureaus.; title: PART II; title: V. — The Organization of the Catholic World  97; title: The Diocese as a Basis of Ecclesiastical Administration — The Eastern Church Situation — The Growth of the Church — Catholic Missions — The Secular Clergy — The Diocesan Seminaries — Parochialism — The Religious Orders.; title: VI. — The Politico-Religious History of Catholicism 176; title: The Political Principles of the Holy See — The Chief Politico-Religious Affairs of Recent Years in France, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Poland, Germany, the United States, Canada, Central and South America, Turkey, the Balkan States and Greece, Scandinavia and Holland.; title: VII. — The Catholic Faith 299; title: The Preservation and Propagation of the Faith — Diocesan Councils of Surveillance Nominated by the Bishops — Principal Dogmatic Problems of Recent Times — The Old Catholics in Germany and Switzerland — Americanism in the United States — Modernism in England, France, Germany, Italy and America — An Analysis of the Encyclical Pascendi Condemning Modernism — Mariavitism in Poland — The Relations of the Church of Rome with Dissenters.; title: PART III; title: VIII. — Catholicism and Education 349; title: The Church and Modern Science — Catholic Men of Science — The Catholic Educational Organizations Stationed in Rome; Academies, Universities, Seminaries and Colleges Belonging to the Different Nations — The Catholic Universities, Seminaries, Primary and Secondary Schools in the World at Large — The Question of Neutral Schools.; title: IX. — What the Catholic Church Teaches 394; title: Scholastic Philosophy — Dogmatic and Moral Theology — Holy Scripture — Canon Law — Ecclesiastical History — The Other Sacred Sciences Emanating from Catholic Doctrine: the Liturgy, Ascetic Theology  - and Pastoral Theology.; title: X. — The Spiritual and Practical Sides of Catholicism 433; title: The Church as Guide in the Practical, Spiritual and Christian Life of the Faithful — The Holy Sacraments — The Ecclesiastical Laws Governing Marriage — The Prohibitive and Penal Laws of the Church: Excommunication; Refusal to Administer the Sacraments; Refusal to Grant Ecclesiastical Burial; Opposition to Cremation; Prohibition of Duels, Hypnotism, Spiritualism; Regulations Concerning Entertainments.; title: Conclusion 452