Hubert Wolf is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Muenster in Germany, and has been awarded a number or prizes, including the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Communicator Prize, and the Gutenberg Prize. An internationally renowned scholar of the history of the papacy, his other books include Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich.

a masterly telling of a 19th-century scandalanalysed in a consummate way by Hubert Wolf

• Dramatis Personae ; Prologue ; 1. "Such Turpitudes" ; 2. "The Delicatezza of the Matter as Such" ; 3. "I Am the Little Lion of My Reformed Sisters" ; 4. "Wash Me Well, for the Padre Is Coming" ; 5. "An Act of Divine Splendor" ; 6. "It Is a Heavenly Liquor" ; 7. "That Good Padre Has Spoiled the Work of God" ; 8. "During These Acts I Never Ceased My Inner Prayer" ; 9. "Sorrowful and Contrite" ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Hubert Wolf is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Muenster in Germany, and has been awarded a number or prizes, including the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Communicator Prize, and the Gutenberg Prize. An internationally renowned scholar of the history of the papacy, his other books include Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich.

a masterly telling of a 19th-century scandalanalysed in a consummate way by Hubert Wolf

• Dramatis Personae ; Prologue ; 1. "Such Turpitudes" ; 2. "The Delicatezza of the Matter as Such" ; 3. "I Am the Little Lion of My Reformed Sisters" ; 4. "Wash Me Well, for the Padre Is Coming" ; 5. "An Act of Divine Splendor" ; 6. "It Is a Heavenly Liquor" ; 7. "That Good Padre Has Spoiled the Work of God" ; 8. "During These Acts I Never Ceased My Inner Prayer" ; 9. "Sorrowful and Contrite" ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Hubert Wolf is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Muenster in Germany, and has been awarded a number or prizes, including the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Communicator Prize, and the Gutenberg Prize. An internationally renowned scholar of the history of the papacy, his other books include Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich.

a masterly telling of a 19th-century scandalanalysed in a consummate way by Hubert Wolf

• Dramatis Personae ; Prologue ; 1. "Such Turpitudes" ; 2. "The Delicatezza of the Matter as Such" ; 3. "I Am the Little Lion of My Reformed Sisters" ; 4. "Wash Me Well, for the Padre Is Coming" ; 5. "An Act of Divine Splendor" ; 6. "It Is a Heavenly Liquor" ; 7. "That Good Padre Has Spoiled the Work of God" ; 8. "During These Acts I Never Ceased My Inner Prayer" ; 9. "Sorrowful and Contrite" ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index