This is the third post in a series on us providing subject lists of (post-2000) books we have added in the last nine months (since 1 October 2024, the beginning of our financial year). The list is sorted by date of publication. We hope that these lists will help to share what we have bought or added in the last few months, and make it easy to browse. If you find this useful please let us know.
We added 124 books published after 2000, in Church History, between 1 October 2025, and 2 July 2025.
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| Title | ISBN | Year | Classmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope : The Autobiography / Pope Francis | 9780241764107 | 2025 | BX1139 FRA 2025 |
| The Popes on Air : The History of Vatican Radio from Its Origins to World War II / Raffaella Perin | 9781531507152 | 2024 | BX1131 PER 2024 |
| Making Saints in a “Glocal” Religion Buch | 9783412529796 | 2024 | BX210 MAK 2024 |
| Fontes Nicaenae Synodi: The Contemporary Sources for the Study of the Council of Nicaea (304-337) Hardcover – 1 July 2024 by Samuel Fernandez (Editor) | 9783506796400 | 2024 | BX402 FON 2024 |
| Dorothy Day Spiritual Writings | 9781626985834 | 2024 | BX4419 DAY 2024 |
| From Union Square to Rome | 9781626985599 | 2024 | BX4419 DAY 2024 |
| Óscar Romero and Catholic Social Teaching / Todd Walatka (editor) | 9780268208752 | 2024 | BX4681 ROM OSC 2024 |
| The Monastic World A 1200-Year History Andrew Jotischky | 9780300208566 | 2024 | BX6808 JOT 2024 |
| Catholicism and Democracy : An Essay in the History of Political Thought / Emile Perreau-Saussine (author), Richard Rex (translator) | 9780691248165 | 2023 | BX1023 PER 2023 |
| The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity Bruce W. Longenecker (editor), David E. Wilhite (editor) | 9781108427395 | 2023 | BX243 CAM 2023 |
| The Vatican and permanent neutrality / edited by Marshall J. Breger and Herbert R. Reginbogin. | 9781793642165 | 2022 | BX1102 VAT 2002 |
| To kidnap a Pope : Napoleon and Pius VII / Ambrogio A. Caiani. | 9780300251333 | 2021 | BX1052 CAI 2021 |
| The devil and the Dolce vita : Catholic attempts to save Italy’s soul, 1948-1974 / Roy Domenico. | 9780813234335 | 2021 | BX2532 DOM 2021 |
| The Popes against the protestants : the Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy / Kevin Madigan. | 9780300215861 | 2021 | BX2532 MAD 2021 |
| Santa Sede e cattolici nel mondo postbellico, 1918-1922 : raccolta di studi nel centenario della conclusione della Prima Guerra Mondiale / a cura di Marc Agostino. | 9788826604664 | 2020 | BX1098 SAN 2020 |
| Prison journal / George Pell. | 9781621644484 | 2020 | BX4978 PEL PEL 2020 |
| Dès le début : die Friedensnote Papst Benedikts XV. von 1917 / Birgit Aschmann, Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven (Hg.). | 9783506702722 | 2019 | BX1095 DEB 2019 |
| Absolute power : how the pope became the most influential man in the world / Paul Collins. | 9781610398602 | 2018 | BX103 COL 2018 |
| Catholic modern : the challenge of totalitarianism and the remaking of the Church / James Chappel. | 9780674972100 | 2018 | BX1123 CHA 2018 |
| Catholicism and the Great War : religion and everyday life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1922 / Patrick J. Houlihan, University of Chicago. | 9781108446020 | 2017 | BX1955 HOU 2017 |
| Un particolare universalismo : la diplomazia vaticana tra totalitarismi e guerra fredda / a cura di Luigi Rossi. | n/a | 2016 | BX1065 PAR 2016 |
| Pie XI, un pape contre le nazisme? : l’encyclique Mit brennender Sorge (14 mars 1937) : actes du colloque international de Brest, 4-6 juin 2015 / sous la direction de Fabrice Bouthillon et Marie Levant. | 9782369450337 | 2016 | BX1097 PIE 2016 |
| The Holy See’s foreign policies in inter-war Europe / edited by Milla Bergström and Kirsi Salonen. | 9789525031850 | 2016 | BX1098 HOL 2016 |
| The Ireland of Edward Cahill SJ, 1868-1941 : a secular or a Christian state? / Thomas J Morrissey SJ. | 9781910248317 | 2016 | BX2259 CAH MOR 2016 |
| Local church, global church : Catholic activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum To Vatican II / Stephen J.C. Andes & Julia G. Young, editors. | 9780813227917 | 2016 | BX4599 LOC 2016 |
| God’s bankers : a history of money and power at the Vatican / Gerald Posner. | 9781416576570 | 2015 | BX1056 POS 2015 |
| L’umanesimo di Paolo VI / Gianni La Bella. | 9788849844108 | 2015 | BX1135 LAB 2015 |
| A partisan church : American Catholicism and the rise of neoconservative Catholics / Todd Scribner. | 9780813227290 | 2015 | BX4417 SCR 2015 |
| The nuns of Sant’Ambrogio : the true story of a convent scandal / Hubert Wolf ; translated by Ruth Martin. | 9780198732198 | 2015 | BX7901 WOL 2015 |
| Born from the Gaze of God: The Tibhirine Journal of a Martyr Monk (1993-1996) – Monastic Wisdom Series Lebreton, Christophe | 9780879070373 | 2014 | BX7279 LEB 2014 |
| Quel che resta di Dio : un discorso storico sulle forme della vita cristiana / Alberto Melloni. | 9788806211431 | 2013 | BX1065 MEL 2013 |
| The Pope’s last crusade : how an American Jesuit helped Pope Pius XI’s campaign to stop Hitler / Peter Eisner. | 9780062049148 | 2013 | BX1079.A5 EIS 2013 |
| Le gouvernement pontifical sous Pie XI : pratiques romaines et gestion de l’universel / études réunies par Laura Pettinaroli. | 9782728309573 | 2013 | BX1097 GOU 2013 |
| Cattolici e fascisti : la Santa Sede e la politica italiana all’alba del regime (1919-1925) / Alberto Guasco. | 9788815245205 | 2013 | BX1097 GUA 2013 |
| The life & pontificate of Pope Pius XII : between history & controversy / Frank J. Coppa. | 9780813220154 | 2013 | BX1131 COP 2013 |
| 10 things Pope Francis wants you to know / John L. Allen, Jr. | 9780764824371 | 2013 | BX1131 OSH 2011 |
| The global Vatican : an inside look at the Catholic church, world politics, and the extraordinary relationship between the United States and the Holy See / Francis Rooney, former ambassador to the Holy See. | 9781442223615 | 2013 | BX4325 ROO 2013 |
| Pius XI and America : proceedings of the Brown University conference (Providence, October 2010) / edited by Charles R. Gallagher, David I. Kertzer, Alberto Melloni. | 9783643901460 | 2012 | BX1097 PIU 2012 |
| Jesuit Baroque sculpture in Spain : the chapel of the English College in Valladolid / Marjorie Trusted. | n/a | 2012 | BX2075.V3 TRU 2012 |
| Saints of the Roman Calendar : including the natinonal calendars of Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales / by Fr Nicholas Schofield. | 9781860827907 | 2012 | BX8215 SCH 2012 |
| Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican : Pope Pius XI and the speech that was never made / Emma Fattorini ; translated by Carl Ipsen. | 9780745644882 | 2011 | BX1097 FAT 2011 |
| La Chiesa dell’anticoncilio : i tradizionalisti alla riconquista di Roma / Giovanni Miccoli. | 9788842097808 | 2011 | BX1123.L4 MIC 2011 |
| The policies and politics of Pope Pius XII : between diplomacy and morality / Frank J. Coppa. | 9781433105210 | 2011 | BX1131 COP 2011 |
| A cross too heavy : Pope Pius XII and the Jews of Europe / Paul O’Shea. | 9780230110809 | 2011 | BX1131 OSH 2011 |
| Life with a mission : Cardinal Willem Marinus van Rossum C.Ss.R. (1854-1932) / Vefie Poels, Théo Salemink & Hans de Valk eds. | 9789081409810 | 2011 | BX2326 ROS LIF 2011 |
| Il secolo cattolico : la strategia geopolitica della Chiesa / Manlio Graziano ; prefazione di Lucio Caracciolo. | 9788842093978 | 2010 | BX1129 GRA 2010 |
| Keepers of the keys of heaven : a history of the papacy / Roger Collins. | 9780753826959 | 2010 | BX103 COL 2010 |
| Il papa non deve parlare : Chiesa, fascismo e guerra d’Etiopia / Lucia Ceci ; prefazione di Angelo Del Boca. | 9788842092711 | 2010 | BX1079.N3 CEC 2010 |
| Pius XI : keywords : international conference Milan 2009 / edited by Alberto Guasco and Raffaella Perin. | 9783643900272 | 2010 | BX1097 PIU 2010 |
| La crociata di Benedetto : il Vaticano in guerra contro la modernità / Alan Posener. | 9788811601098 | 2010 | BX1138 POS 2010 |
| Le Papauté contemporaine (XIXe-XXe siècles) : hommage au chanoine Roger Aubert, professeur émerité à l’université catholique de Louvain, pour ses 95 ans = Il Papato contemporaneo (secoli XIX-XX) : omaggio al canonico Roger Aubert, professore emerito all’Università cattolica di Lovanio, per i 95 anni / edité par Jean-Pierre Delville et Marco Jačov, avec la collaboration de Luc Courtois, Françoise Rosart et Guy Zelis. | n/a | 2009 | BX1106 PAP 2009 |
| Vaticano S.p.A. / Gianluigi Nuzzi. | 9788861900677 | 2009 | BX167 NUZ 2009 |
| The modern papacy / Samuel Gregg. | 9780826430113 | 2009 | BX2097 GRE 2009 |
| What were the crusades? / Jonathan Riley-Smith. | 9780230220690 | 2009 | BX654 RIL 2009 |
| Pío XI entre la República y Franco : angustia del Papa ante la tragedia española / Vicente Cárcel Ortí. | 9788479149284 | 2008 | BX1097 CAR 2008 |
| Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War / Michael Phayer. | 9780253349309 | 2008 | BX1131 PHA 2008 |
| L’inverno più lungo : 1943-44 : Pio XII, gli ebrei e i nazisti a Roma / Andrea Riccardi. | 9788842086734 | 2008 | BX1131 RIC 2008 |
| The Irish College, Rome, and its world / Dáire Keogh & Albert McDonnell, editors. | 9781846820540 | 2008 | BX2248 IRI 2008 |
| Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, his associates and St Anthony’s College, Louvain / Brendan Jennings, OFM, Paul Walsh, Felim O Brien, OFM, and Canice Mooney, OFM ; edited, with revisions, by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. | 9781846820823 | 2008 | BX2248 JEN 2008 |
| Catholicism in modern Italy : religion, society, and politics since 1861 / John Pollard. | 9780415238359 | 2008 | BX2532 POL 2008 |
| La signora del Sacro Palazzo : Suor Pascalina e Pio XII / Martha Schad. | 9788821562877 | 2008 | BX7937.C9 SCH 2008 |
| The battle for Christendom : the Council of Constance, 1415, and the struggle to unite against Islam / Frank Welsh. | 9781845295219 | 2008 | BX820 WEL 2008 |
| Benedetto fra le spie : negli anni della grande guerra un intrigo tra Italia e Vaticano / Annibale Paloscia. | 9788835959489 | 2007 | BX1095 PAL 2007 |
| Pio XI, Hitler e Mussolini : la solitudine di un papa / Emma Fattorini. | 9788806187590 | 2007 | BX1097 FAT 2007 |
| Irish, Catholic and scouse : the history of the Liverpool-Irish, 1800-1939 / John Belchem. | 9781846311086 | 2007 | BX2136 BEL 2007 |
| Catholic revival in the north of Ireland, 1603-41 / Brian Mac Cuarta. | 9781846820519 | 2007 | BX2248 MAC 2007 |
| The Irish College at Santiago de Compostela 1605-1769 | 9781846820328 | 2007 | BX2248 OCO 2007 |
| Le pontificat de Léon XIII : renaissances du Saint-Siège? / études réunies par Philippe Levillain et Jean-Marc Ticchi. | 9782728307548 | 2006 | BX1053 PON 2006 |
| Pio XI : il papa dei Patti Lateranensi e dell’opposizione ai totalitarismi / Yves Chiron. | 9788821556920 | 2006 | BX1097 PIO CHI 2006 |
| Louis Charles Casartelli : a bishop in peace and war / Martin John Broadley. | 9780860880356 | 2006 | BX2099 CAS BRO 2006 |
| A Brief History of Christianity – Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion | 9781405110785 | 2006 | BX77 LIN 2006 |
| The papacy and the new world order : Vatican diplomacy, catholic opinion and international politics at the time of Leo XII, 1878-1903 = La Papette et le nouvel ordre mondial : diplomatique vaticane, opinion catholique et politique internationale au temps de Leo XIII / edited by Vincent Viane. | 9789058675187 | 2005 | BX107 PAP 2005 |
| Papal diplomacy : John Paul II and the culture of peace / Bernard J. O’Connor. | 9781587316302 | 2005 | BX1137 OCO 2005 |
| La Chiesa cattolica e il totalitarismo : VIII Giornata Luigi Firpo : atti del Convegno, Torino, 25-26 ottobre 2001 / a cura di Vincenzo Ferrone. | 9788822253736 | 2004 | BX1079.N3 CHI 2004 |
| Conclave : the politics, personalities, and process of the next papal election / John L. Allen, Jr. | 9780385504539 | 2004 | BX110 ALL 2004 |
| Finanza bianca : la Chiesa, i soldi, il potere / Giancarlo Galli. | 9788804512622 | 2004 | BX1123.F4 GAL 2004 |
| The Pius war : responses to the critics of Pius XII / edited by Joseph Bottum and David G. Dalin. | 9780739109069 | 2004 | BX1131 PIU 2004 |
| Il Vaticano di Pio XII : uno sguardo dall’interno / a cura di Harold H. Tittmann III ; traduzione di Marco Sartori ; con una prefazione di Sergio Romano. | 9788879726931 | 2004 | BX1131 VAT 2004 |
| Habits of devotion : Catholic religious practice in twentieth-century America / edited by James M. O’Toole. | 9780801442568 | 2004 | BX4417 HAB 2004 |
| Prosperity and plunder : European Catholic monasteries in the age of revolution, 1650-1815 / Derek Beales. | 9780521590907 | 2003 | BX6825 BEA 2003 |
| Aux frontières de la paix : bons offices, médiations, arbitrages du Saint-Siège, 1878-1922 / Jean-Marc Ticchi. | 9782728305971 | 2002 | BX1089 TIC 2002 |
| Pius XII and the Holocaust : understanding the controversy / José M. Sánchez. | 9780813210810 | 2002 | BX1131 SAN 2002 |
| Bishop von Galen : German Catholicism and national socialism / Beth A. Griech-Polelle. | 9780300092233 | 2002 | BX1959 GAL POR 2002 |
| Female monastic life in early Tudor England : with an edition of Richard Fox’s translation of the Benedictine rule for women, 1517 / edited by Barry Collett. | 9781840146097 | 2002 | BX2078 FEM 2002 |
| Denis Hurley : a portrait by friends / with a foreword by Desmond Tutu ; edited by Anthony M. Gamley. | 9781875053292 | 2002 | BX3766 DEN 2002 |
| Il nucleo tedesco : Vaticano e Triplice alleanza nei dispacci del nunzio a Vienna : Luigi Galimberti, 1887-1892 / Luciano Trincia ; presentazione di Andrea Riccardi. | 9788837218447 | 2001 | BX1089 TRI 2001 |
| Kreuz und Hakenkreuz : die evangelische Kirche im Dritten Reich / Kurt Meier. | 9783423308106 | 2001 | BX1957 MEI 2001 |
| The Irish College at Lisbon, 1590-1834 / Patricia O’Connell. | 9781851825646 | 2001 | BX2248 OCO 2001 |
| Le relazioni diplomatiche tra la Santa Sede e la Romania : 1920-1948 / Mariuca Vadan. | 9788820972165 | 2001 | BX2844 VAD 2001 |
| Human Dignity and the Common Good: The Great Papal Social Encyclicals from Leo XIII to John Paul II – Contributions to the Study of Religion | 9780313320712 | 2001 | BX309.S6 ROU 2001 |
| We, the Ordinary People of the Streets – Ressourcement / Madeleine Delbrel | 9780802846969 | 2000 | BX1073 DEL 2000 |
| Cattolici e liberali durante la trasformazione dei partiti : la “questione di Roma” tra politica nazionale e progetti vaticani (1876-1883) / Andrea Ciampani. | 9788885760875 | 2000 | BX1089 CIA 2000 |
| The next pope : a behind-the-scenes look at how the successor to John Paul II will be elected and where he will lead the church / Peter Hebblethwaite ; revised and updated by Margaret Hebblethwaite. | 9780006281603 | 2000 | BX110 HEB 2000 |
| I dilemmi e i silenzi di Pio XII / Giovanni Miccoli. | 9788817863643 | 2000 | BX1131 MIC 2000 |
| Under his very windows : the Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy / Susan Zuccotti. | 9780300084870 | 2000 | BX1131 ZUC 2000 |
| The popes : a history / John Julius Norwich. | 9780701182908 | 2011 | BX103 NOR 2011 |
| Love Is a Journey : The Inspiring Life and Legacy of Pope John Paul I / Mo Guernon | 9781538190708 | 2025 | BX1136 GUE 2025 |
| Catholicism in the Eyes of the New York Times The Epoch of Pope John Paul II / Christopher Vecsey | 9781666966411 | 2025 | BX1137 VEC 2025 |
| Great teachers / Pope Benedict XVI. | 9781592765362 | 2011 | BX1138 BEN 2011 |
| Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI John C. Cavadini (editor) | 9780268023133 | 2016 | BX1138 EXP 2016 |
| The Thought of Pope Benedict XVI : An Introduction to the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger [3rd edition] / Aidan Nichols | 9781350431126 | 2024 | BX1138 NIC 2024 |
| Fellow seekers of the truth : Benedict xvi’s ecclesiology of interreligious dialogue / Rocco Viviano | 9781916897977 | 2024 | BX1138 VIV 2024 |
| Sharing the wisdom of time / by Pope Francis and friends. | 9781788120074 | 2018 | BX1139 FRA 2018 |
| The Moral Vision of Pope Francis Expanding the US Reception of the First Jesuit Pope / Conor M. Kelly (editor), Kristin E. Heyer (editor) | 9781647124564 | 2024 | BX1139 KEL 2024 |
| The election of Pope Francis : an inside account of the Conclave that changed history | 9781626983199 | 2019 | BX1139 OCO 2019 |
| Cenni biografici su tutti i cardinali (1198-2001) : incarichi precedenti ai cardinalati, date di creazione e morte : titoli diaconali, presbiteriali e vescovili / Giovanni Sicari. | n/a | 2001 | BX159 SIC 2001 |
| Louis and Zélie Martin : parents of Thérèse of Lisieux / by Paulinus Redmond. | 9781860825279 | 2008 | BX1798 MAR RED 2008 |
| Peter Maurin : apostle to the world / Dorothy Day ; with Francis J. Sicius. | 9781570755507 | 2004 | BX1798 MAU DAY 2004 |
| The English Church, 940-1154 / H.R. Loyn. | 9780582303034 | 2000 | BX2031 LOY 2000 |
| Thomas Becket of Canterbury : patron of the church in England and the English pastoral clergy / by J.B. Midgley. | 9781860824760 | 2008 | BX2046 MID 2008 |
| Roman Catholicism in Bedfordshire 1700-1900 : The Other Non-Conformists / Peter Doyle (author), Nicola Avery (editor) [The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society] | 9780851550862 | 2025 | BX2140.B4 DOY 2025 |
| Celtic saints : passionate wanderers / Elizabeth Rees | 9780500019894 | 2000 | BX237 REE 2000 |
| The world of medieval monasticism : its history and forms of life / Gert Melville ; translated by James Mixson ; foreword by Giles Constable. | 9780879072636 | 2016 | BX2821 MEL 2016 |
| The duty of delight : the diaries of Dorothy Day / edited by Robert Ellsberg. | 9780874620238 | 2008 | BX4419 DAY DUT 2008 |
| The Church of the East : a concise history / Wilhelm Baum and Dietmar W. Winkler. | 9780415600217 | 2010 | BX6432 BAU 2010 |
| Dating God : live and love in the way of St. Francis / Daniel P. Horan. | 9781616361365 | 2012 | BX7385 HOR 2012 |
| Francis of Assisi The Life of a Restless Saint / Volker Leppin (author), Rhys S. Bezzant (translator) | 9780300263800 | 2025 | BX7385 LEP 2025 |
| Dominic Barberi / by Ben Lodge. | 9781860824715 | 2008 | BX7618 BAR LOD 2008 |
| The Personalism of Edith Stein : A Synthesis of Thomism and Phenomenology – Studies in the Carmelite Tradition / Robert McNamara | 9780813237473 | 2024 | BX7840.A3 STE MCN |
| Ernest Lelièvre : 1826-1889. | n/a | 2008 | BX7971 LEL 2008 |
| The 33 doctors of the church / Fr. Christopher Rengers, O.F.M. Cap. | 9780895554406 | 2000 | BX8227 REN 2000 |
| Anthony of Padua : Franciscan, Preacher, Teacher, Saint / Valentin Strappazzon (author), Michael F. Cusato (translator) | 9780813239248 | 2024 | BX8297 ANT STR 2024 |
| Reformation Thought : An Introduction / Alister E. McGrath [Fifth edition] | 9781119756583 | 2021 | BX831 MCG 2021 |
| A Reformation Reader : Primary Texts With Introductions, 3rd Edition / Denis R. Janz (editor) | 9781506474694 | 2023 | BX831 REF 2023 |
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