Clergy category: 219 books

Self-supporting ministers are wonderfully non-standard. They are deployed in a wide variety ofways and have a range of motivations, working patterns and training needs. Sometimes underused or overworked, they may feel unrecognized and under-supported. As the Church turns increasingly to its volunteer...

The traditional Catholic Church views true celibacy as a gift from God. But todays reality paints a much different picture. In Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood, Lou A. Bordisso reviews the research on sexual activity and celibacy among Catholic priests. Featuring heart-wrenching, anonymous, and...

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The first official US Army chaplain doctrine appeared in 1926 and contained this guidance: "The duty of the chaplain lies with the men of his command who are on the fighting line." This guidance...

Over 50 billion dollars in securities. Gold reserves that exceed those of industrialized nations. Real estate holdings that equal the total area of many countries. Opulent palaces containing the world's greatest art treasures. These are some of the riches of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet in 1929...

The origin and history of knighthood is traced back to the European Dark Ages and the middle Ages. It is all about voluntary involvement and participation of lay members (i.e. un-ordained persons) which helped to enliven the faith and support the church spiritually, physically, structurally, financially,...

What does it take to see man at his worst? To share the pain of suffering and death? To persevere a life of faith? It takes a courageous heart.Men of Brave Heart is a celebration of the priestly life--from the historical and Scriptural connections through the example of the saints before us. The...

Controversy about the Catholic priesthood is nothing new. Just like laity, priests (including bishops and popes) have always been sinners. Some priests, like some laity, have caused grave scandal throughout the 2000-year history of the Church. Two questions arise from this reality. Why did Jesus Christ...

Since the birth of speculative freemasonry in the early 17th century, large numbers of intelligent and otherwise well-informed, sane and sensible people have believed that much of what was happening around them only occurred because it was set in motion by secret societies, the motors of history....

This important book on priestly identity embraces the many contemporary varieties of priestly ministry: male and female, paid and unpaid, parish and work–based, catholic, evangelical, charismatic. Examining the “root,” the “shape,” and the “fruit” of priestly identity, On Being a Priest...

Most people in the United States today no longer live their lives under the guidance of local institutionalized religious leadership, such as rabbis, ministers, and priests; rather, liberals and conservatives alike have taken charge of their own religious or spiritual practices. This shift, along...

During the second half of the twentieth century, the American military chaplaincy underwent a profound transformation. Broad-based and ecumenical in the World War II era, the chaplaincy emerged from the Vietnam War as generally conservative and evangelical. Before and after the Vietnam War, the chaplaincy...

The images of the early years and the first trips of Pope John Paul II, commented through writings or speeches of the Pope himself, for the most part taken from his Encyclical Redemptor Hominis. This is a partial transposition of a 1979 book - Hearts that love - therefore we ask for forgiveness for not excellent quality of some pictures.

-Good chance of Oscar nomination for acting and screenplay