Modern History of the Catholic Church

This course is an overview of the modern era of ecclesiastical history.˜ Beginning with the ??Enlightenment?, we will examine the relationship between the Catholic Church and the world until Vatican II.˜ In the way we will look at the age of revolution, what new ideas like liberalism meant and how popes of the nineteenth century sought to deal with them.˜ The worldwide missionary experience of the Catholic Church at the time, as well as the rich history of Canadian Catholicism will be discussed.˜ Pius IX, Vatican I and the pontificate of Leo XIII will be a key part of the course, as well an examination of the issues that the Church had to confront in the twentieth century, such as world wars and the holocaust.˜ Light will be shed on these topics trough assigned readings, biographical studies and the study of examples of art and architecture from the period.