Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Francis Xavier stands as the

Francis Xavier stands as the living fruit of that formation

and the deacon James

writing in the heart of industrial England

With selections from E

Cahill examines how certain currents of modern thought have diverged from the vision of social order grounded in Christian revelation

Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Francis Xavier stands as theThis volume presents a clear and faithful Catholic account of the great changes that swept through the Church and the world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Beginning with the early causes of the Protestant revolt, it traces the rise of Lutheranism, the spread of heresy in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, and the long wars that followed across the Christian world. The chapters follow the Churchs firm and supernatural response: the