About the book: 2018 / Father Romano Scalfi (1923–2016), Catholic priest, founder of the Christian Russia Foundation, popularizer of the Eastern Christian tradition. “A Brief History of the Catholic Church” is the work of Father Romano Scalfi, designed to acquaint a wide range of readers with the main milestones in the history of the Catholic Church in a concise and accessible form. The description of historical events and important personalities is supplemented by excerpts from various written sources: letters, treatises, epistles, which help to better understand the influence of an individual experience of faith on the current appearance of the Catholic Church. The third edition of the book, corrected and expanded, was published after the death of Father Romano, but still retains his lively style and exceptional care in presenting the large-scale historical path of the Catholic Church, which, undoubtedly, attracts both the sophisticated researcher and the casual reader, at the beginning of his acquaintance with church history.