The complete online text of The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc.

The French-born English writer Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc (1870-1953) was a noted poet, historian, essayist, and novelist. Throughout his literary career he was concerned with the problems of social reform. Hilaire Belloc was born in Saint-Cloud, Franc...

Hilaire Belloc was born in the middle of a thunderstorm, and it is hard for anyone writing about him now to resist observing how apt was this scene, since thunderclouds of controversy, often of his own seeking, seemed to surround him for much of his life...

Hilaire Belloc is chiefly remembered for his controversial political opinions, often belligerent character, and strong allegiance to the Catholic Church. His deep feelings about the important political and social issues of his day manifest themselves in...

Six cardinals who got to the curia by supporting right-wing governments in Latin America, opposing liberation theology At the peak of the recent furor over possible extradition of former Chilean president and senator-for-life Augusto Pinochet, many observers were shocked to learn that...

Rome 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim. By Herbert L. Kessler and Johanna Zacharias. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2000. Pp. 288. $35.00.) Late in the year 1299 pilgrims imbued with expectations of plenary indulgences began to congregate in Rome....