What's a good book about the history of the Church?

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I want to learn more about the history of the Catholic Church, you know, all that stuff nobody told me about. Like, what was going on during the middle ages? Who was the Pope in 1776? The Pope in 1876? I don’t have a clue. I want to learn the whole history…

I’m asking on the traditional forum, because I know yall are conservative, and I don’t want any of that revisionist junk. I’m sick and tired of hearing “Catholics” say the Catholic Church never taught purgatory, that Peter never existed, blah blah blah…

So please, what’s a good book on the history of the Church, that doesn’t stray from the mainstream and proper view of Catholicism?

Thanks!
 
There is no Kings way to the history.

Here is the list of popes from the Catholic Encyclopedia

newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm

and most (until St Pius X) refers to an article about it.To go through that is a good start.

For modern times a good study source is the Vatican site on the popes

vatican.va/holy_father/

For a wide view for the ancient times the best source is Eusebius Church history

newadvent.org/fathers/2501.htm

These are original sources, compendiums are almost always pointed to one or other side, seek their truth not the facts.
 
my response won’t help you.

When I was in the eighth grade in Catholic school, I came across a volume in our school library on church history. It was an illustrated book, which made me take more interest in it. I don’t think this was a book for that grade level. It was challenging for me to read it, but it was great.

I didn’t have the presence of mind to keep track of that book’s name (almost 50 years ago), but I remember it fondly. You know? it was the kind of book I would have wanted to read again, to absorb more. Now, it’s just a distant memory of what must have been the first book that I ever seriously read in my life.

I suppose I didn’t really understand it, against the backdrop of European or world history. But, it caught my attention, for sure. That book is now like a friend that I’ve lost.

Yeah, that’s the kind of book I’d be looking for, if I was into that subject.
 
A Concise History of the Catholic Church by Thomas S. Bokenkotter.

We used this book in my two Church History classes in the seminary.
 
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