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by Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Catholic Wisdom for a Mother’s Heart is a creative and practical guide for a wide range of domestic church situations. Catholic women can live out their familial vocation with seasoned, simple suggestions for answering Christ’s universal call to holiness. Lovely poems conclude each chapter on...
Chaos in the Catholic Church
A Call for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
The Catholic church has been in decline for several decades. Whether one examines the priest sexual abuse crisis, Mass attendance, leadership failures, or the worldwide priest shortage, Dr. Kinkels message is clear: reform is needed. There is a sexual abuse problem and leaders did not deal with it...
Intimate Graces
How Practicing the Works of Mercy Brings Out the Best in Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Winner of a Catholic Press Association Award: Family Life Books (First Place).
In Intimate Graces, bestselling author and Catholic media personality Teresa Tomeo and her husband, Dominick Pastore, invite couples to enrich their marriages by practicing the fourteen Spiritual and Corporal Works...
by Charles Zech, Mary Gautier, Robert Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Every Catholic parish has a pastoral council and a finance council, but how many fulfill the mission they were set up to serve?
These councils are among the most important but least understood structures in the Catholic Church. Mandated to exist, their roles have become increasingly critical...
by Our Sunday Visitor
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
The foundations of our faith begin in the home. This book is a handy, go-to resource for teaching basic, life-giving Catholic prayers and rediscovering the power of prayer as a family. Learning to pray at an early age has enormous value. We are able to more fully join in with family and community...
The First Five Years of the Priesthood
A Study of Newly Ordained Catholic Priests
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
Reports indicate that many newly ordained men are feeling demoralized and some are resigning. The accounts raised many questions. How widespread is the problem? What difficulties are the recently ordained priests facing? Is the problem due to changes...
For Both Cross and Flag
Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Against a backdrop of war and anti-Catholic sentiment, one man loses his rights because he is falsely accused
In this fascinating, detailed history, William Issel recounts the civil rights abuses suffered by Sylvester Andriano, an Italian American Catholic civil leader whose religious and political...
Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity
Seeing and Believing
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence...
The Seer of Bayside
Veronica Lueken and the Struggle to Define Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
In 1968, Veronica Lueken, a Catholic housewife in Bayside, Queens, New York, began to experience visions of the Virgin Mary. Over almost three decades, she imparted over 300 messages from Mary, Jesus, and other heavenly personages. These revelations, which were sent all over the world through newsletters,...
5 Minutes with the Saints
More Spiritual Nourishment for Busy Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Building on the popularity of 5 Minutes with Christ (2011), this unique book of meditations draws on insights and anecdotes from great Catholic saints on the subject of education to encourage and inspire teachers and others on the front lines of Catholic education. Drawing its inspiration from the great...
The Ten Commandments
Case Studies in Catholic Morality
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The Ten Commandments: Case Studies in Catholic Morality is a single source that summarizes Catholic teaching around the Ten Commandments. Thirty case studies related to real-life issues and dilemmas addressed by each commandment make up the heart of this text and remind students of the central importance...
by Tim Rohr
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Recently, the elderly owner of an NBA basketball team made a racial remark and was forced to give up his team. A well-known TV chef admitted to using the "N" word thirty years ago and her show was cancelled. An NFL football player made what was judged to be an intolerant comment about the first openly...
Building from Belief
Advance, Retreat, and Compromise in the Remaking of Catholic Church Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Imagine what Sundays in a parish could be if worshiping communities are assured that the liturgy in their spaces might be a foretaste of the heavenly liturgy. Or what town-hall meetings could also be in a place where parish committees are inspired to know that they can be the instruments of truth...
by Father Raymond G. Helmick SJ
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The Catholic Church in the United States and Europe has seen declining numbers both in regular attendance and in clergy and religious life.Scandals have torn at people's allegiance, and feelings of disappointment, disillusion, and anger have become widespread. Church authorities have seemed reluctant...