Catholic category: 4805 books
by Jim Auer
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 1998
Today's young people are more intelligent, informed, and inquisitive than ever before. They are often inclined to question things previous generations have taken for granted -- things such as religion.This book gives young Catholics a deeper appreciation of their faith and offers understanding and encouragement...
The Spirit of Enthusiasm
A History of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, 1967-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2010
In February 1967, a group of Catholic faculty members and students attending a spiritual retreat at Duquesne University experienced what they called a 'baptism in the spirit.' The experience of the 'Duquesne Weekend' spread rapidly to other college campuses in the Midwest and then throughout the United...
American Jesuits and the World
How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard...
Electing Our Bishops
How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
How does one become a bishop in the Catholic Church? Electing our Bishops: How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders explains how history, politics, and religious tradition converge to produce the episcopacy. The book gives an historical overview from the earliest times when bishops were elected...
Confessions of a Convert
The Classic Spiritual Autobiography from the Author of "Lord of the World"
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Mentioned by Pope Francis as a writer whom everyone should read, Robert Hugh Benson, author of Lord of the World, shares his spiritual journey from being an Anglican and son of the archbishop of Canterbury to becoming a Roman Catholic priest. Through his humble, honest, and memorable story, Benson...
Preaching Romans
Proclaiming God's Saving Grace
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Although Paul's letter to the Romans is the most theologically charged writing of the New Testament, it is rarely preached from Catholic pulpits. Perhaps some of the Pauline themes? Redemption and sanctification, justification and reconciliation, resurrection and parousia? seem too daunting for homiletic...
The Church Visible
The Ceremonial Life and Protocol of the Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Revised and updated for the 21st century: the legendary resource on the universality, spirituality, and grandeur of the post-Vatican II Catholic Church. Filled with detailed information that will fascinate any Catholic (What is a zucchetto and who wears one? Why do cardinals have their title in the middle...
The Development of Moral Theology
Five Strands
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Charles Curran in his newest book The Development of Moral Theology: Five Strands, brings a unique historical and critical analysis to the five strands that differentiate Catholic moral theology from other approaches to Christian ethics—sin and the manuals of moral theology, the teaching of Thomas...
by Charles E. Curran
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
In Charles E. Curran’s latest book, Diverse Voices in Modern US Moral Theology, he presents the diverse voices of US Catholic moral theologians from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The book discusses eleven key individuals in the development and evolution of moral theology as well as the...
Bioethics Matters
A Guide for Concerned Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
A practical, must-read book for Catholics who want to know how Church teaching can help them work their way through tough decisions and choices. This succinct yet comprehensive guide clearly sets out Catholic teaching on today’s hot-button issues such as stem-cell research, reproductive technologies,...
by Peter Stravinskas
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2002
Easy-to-use pronunciation guide and complete history of Catholic terminology in a handy pocket size.
Forming Intentional Disciples
The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
How can we transmit a living, personal Catholic faith to future generations? By coming to know Jesus Christ, and following him as his disciples.
These are times of immense challenge and immense opportunity for the Catholic Church.
Consider these statistics for the United States.
Only...
Forming Intentional Disciples
The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus, Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
How can we transmit a living, personal Catholic faith to future generations? By coming to know Jesus Christ, and following him as his disciples.
These are times of immense challenge and immense opportunity for the Catholic Church.
Consider these statistics for the United States.
Only...
Split
A Child, a Priest, and the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
At age seven, Mary Dispenza was raped by her parish priest. The event split the child's sense of self, then vanished from memory. Carrying an unaccountable feeling of shame, Mary clung to Church liturgy and dogma for support and entered the convent, where for 15 years she lived as a nun, separate...