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Catholic Shrines in Chennai, India
The politics of renewal and apostolic legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Though proportionally small, India's Christians are a populous and significant minority. Focussing on various Roman Catholic churches and shrines located in Chennai, a large city in South India where activities concerning saintal revival and shrinal development have taken place in the recent past,...
Catholic Women Confront Their Church
Stories of Hurt and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Catholic Women Confront Their Church tells the stories of nine exceptional women who have chosen to remain Catholic despite their deep disagreements with the institutional church. From Barbara Blaine, founder of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), to Sister Simone Campbell, whose...
Catholic Stories For Boys & Girls
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Catholic Stories for Boys & Girls offers four volumes of happy and courageous stories, compiled and written by Catholic nuns in the 1930's.
Catholic Stories For Boys & Girls
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Catholic Stories for Boys & Girls offers four volumes of happy and courageous stories, compiled and written by Catholic nuns in the 1930's.
Catholic and Married
Leaning Into Love
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
"And they lived happily ever after." Only in fairy tales, you say. But there is life after the honeymoon-messy, challenging, happily-married life. That's the great promise of Catholic marriage, and if you're married or considering marriage the joy is there for you, too. Many Catholics today share...
Medical Care at the End of Life
A Catholic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
For over thirty years, David F. Kelly has worked with medical practitioners, students, families, and the sick and dying to confront the difficult and often painful issues that concern medical treatment at the end of life. In this short and practical book, Kelly shares his vast experience, providing a...
Called to Pray
Daily Prayers for Catholic Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Catholic school teachers often ask for prayer resources they can use in the classroom. Award-winning theology teacher Justin McClain offers more than two hundred original prayers to meet those requests. This collection of short prayers is arranged by school-year-related themes and can be read by a...
Sex, Violence, and Justice
Contraception and the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
In 1968, Pope Paul VI published Humanae vitae, the encyclical that reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s continued opposition to the use of any form of artificial contraception. In Sex, Violence, and Justice: Contraception and the Catholic Church, Aline Kalbian outlines the Church’s position against artificial...
Understanding the Divide
A Presbyterian Elder, a Roman Catholic Theologian, and Basic Questions of the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
In Understanding the Divide: A Presbyterian Elder, a Roman Catholic Theologian, and Basic Questions of the Christian Faith, a Presbyterian Elder and a Roman Catholic theologian reflect in dialogical fashion on basic but critical dimensions of contemporary Christian faith. How should we interpret the...
Habits, Hosts and the Holy Ghost
Tales from a Catholic School Girl
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
For as long as Maureen Mary Mulldoon could remember, her destiny was to become a Catholic nun. With rosaries recited, novenas said, and candles lit in her honor, her Irish family prayed for her dedication to the church. Maureens aspirations became not of marriage and children, but of life in the convent....
by James Martin,SJ
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year Winner of a Christopher Award Winner of a Catholic Press Association Book AwardMeet some surprising friends of God in this warm and wonderful memoirJames Martin has led an entirely modern life: from a lukewarm Catholic childhood, to an education at the...
American Priest
The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame's Father Ted Hesburgh
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A provocative new biography probes deeply into the storied life of Father Ted Hesburgh, the well-loved but often controversial president of Notre Dame University.
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Considered for many decades to be the most influential priest in America, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, played what many consider pivotal...
Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas
How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Winner, 2017 Ragsdale Award
A timely study that puts current issues—religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics—in historical context.
The masthead of the Liberator, an anti-Catholic newspaper published in Magnolia, Arkansas,...
Parenting with Grace, 2nd Edition Updated & Expanded
The Catholic Parents' Guide to Raising Almost Perfect Kids, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Would you like to raise almost perfect kids?Family therapist and parent Gregory Popcak and his wife, Lisa, are back with their second edition of Parenting with Grace: The Catholic Parents' Guide to Raising almost Perfect Kids. This latest updated version continues to guide parents through each...