Books by Jon M. Sweeney
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English
review 1: This is a poorly researched book revealing far more about the author's veneration of its subject than about the subject himself. Mr. Sweeney tells us that there is no proof that Pope Boniface had Celestine V murdered.....and then spends a chapter telling us how he did it. The a...
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English
review 1: Well-written, engaging portrait of the fascinating figure of Pope St. Celestine V, but it is disappointing that a Catholic author, in writing the biography of a saint, would not do so in accord with the mind of the Church. While there was no outright heterodoxy, at times the edit...