On the Left Bank of the Tiber by Gerald O'Collins SJ
On the Left Bank of the Tiber covers thirty-two years teaching at the
Gregorian University in Rome (1974-2006)
a story peopled with students,
professors, visitors, Italian friends and, of course, popes.
O’Collins was there for the last years of Paul VI, experienced at first hand
the cruelly short pontificate of John Paul I (‘the smiling pope’), and
constantly appeared on world television for the final sickness and death of
John Paul II.
He was on the BBC platform for the election of Benedict XVI. This
book records the happiness and challenge of professorial life at an ancient and
thoroughly international university, situated on the left bank of the Tiber and
looking across the river to the offices of the Vatican.
It presents the
excitement, achievements and shadow side of the long pontificate of John Paul
II—including an insider’s account of the prosecution of Jacques Dupuis.
Dean of
the theology faculty at the Gregorian (1985–91), O’Collins taught thousands of
students, including many who later became bishops and some who have been
created cardinals.
Paperback 2013. Published by Connor Court Publishing. 310 pages.
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Preloved Condition - Cover has no creasing to the front cover and spine. Minor scuffs on front cover.
All pages are clean, unmarked with no folds and are in excellent condition.
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