John VidmarJohn Vidmar OP has taught History at the Ohio Dominican College, Providence College, and at the Dominican House of Studies, where he served as Associate Professor, Academic Dean, Acting President and Prior. He has lectured extensively at the Smithsonan Institution (a History of the Popes, a History of the Reformation, a History of Religious Orders, and the English Christian Literary Revival of the Twentieth Century) and will be giving a lecture series there in the spring of 2004 on the Inquisition. His The Six Ages of the Church: A Short History of the Catholic Church, will be published by the Paulist Press. Read More Read Less