Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 From the Margins to the Center of the Roman World
Chapter 4 Peter: Bishop of Rome?
Chapter 5 After Peter and Paul
Chapter 6 Constantine: The Thirteenth Apostle
Chapter 7 Prosperity to Crisis: Damasus and Leo the Great
Chapter 8 Gregory the Great
Part 9 Bringing Order out of Chaos
Chapter 10 Greeks, Lombards, Franks
Chapter 11 Charlemagne: Savior or Master?
Chapter 12 Their Darkest Hour
Chapter 13 Saving the Papacy from Itself
Chapter 14 Gregory VII: Who's in Charge Here?
Part 15 Development, Decline, Disarray
Chapter 16 Compromises, Crusades, Councils, Concordats
Chapter 17 Innocent III: Vicar of Christ
Chapter 18 Boniface VIII: Big Claims, Big Humiliation
Chapter 19 Avignon: The Babylonian Captivity
Chapter 20 Three Popes at a Time: The Great Western Schism
Chapter 21 Renaissance and Reformation
Chapter 22 The Restored Papacy
Chapter 23 The Renaissance Popes
Chapter 24 Luther, Leo, and the Aftermath
Chapter 25 Paul III: A Turning Point
Chapter 26 Five Popes and a Council
Chapter 27 The New Rome
Part 28 Into the Modern Era
Chapter 29 The Storm Breaks
Chapter 30 Pius VII: Bowed Down and Raised Up
Chapter 31 Beleaguered, Infallible, and Prisoner Again
Chapter 32 Leo XIII: Searching for Solutions
Chapter 33 Pius X: Confronting Modern Culture
Part 34 The Papacy as a Global Institution
Chapter 35 War, Peace, Fascism
Chapter 36 Pius XII: Saint or Sinner?
Chapter 37 John XXIII: Peace and Reconciliation
Chapter 38 Paul VI: In a Tight Spot
Chapter 39 John Paul II: The World is My Parish
Part 40 Epilogue
Part 41 List of Popes