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The Great Catholic Reformers: From Gregory the Great to Dorothy Day is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Great Catholic Reformers covers the careers of Pope Gregory the Great, Peter Damian, Bernard of Clairvaux, Clare of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, Jean Gerson, Jan Hus, Gasparo Gontarini, John Henry Newman, and Dorothy Day. This diversity of reformers in our tradition suggests that legitimate reform within the Catholic Church can operate from different spiritualities, employ either gentle or...

reformers. In the following chapters, we shall see that many bishops and popes who did not recognize their role as servants were confronted with the charge of being the ministers of Satan. Some of the reformers who employed this rhetoric and rationale were tremendously successful, like Jean Gerson, and others, like Jan Hus, found their agendas and themselves going up in flames. While Gregory taught people to be discerning when it came to the leadership of the church, he also instructed those who
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