Catholic category: 4805 books
Virtue-Based Restorative Discipline
Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
"This faith-filled approach to addressing bullying and other disruptive behaviors stands as an exemplary model for our parishes, homes and schools." - The Most Reverend Robert J. Carlson, Archbishop of St. LouisAn age-old problem is now a golden opportunity!From inspiring kids to performing...
Why Catholics Can't Sing
Revised and Updated With New Grand Conclusions and Good Advice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In this informative and entertaining critique of music in the Catholic Church, Thomas Day outlines a stinging indictment of the influence of popular culture on American Catholicism, particularly as expressed in church music. Taking aim at the Irish-American repertoire of songs that overwhelms Catholic...
Our Bishops, Heroes for the New Evangelization
Faithful Shepherds and the Promotion of Lay Doctrinal Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
These are challenging times when it comes to the need for lay Catholics to understand the Church's position on any number of doctrinal issues. Likewise, we need bishops who will lead warmly and amicably, yet likewise accurately and as dutiful spiritual fathers. The goal of this book is to invite the...
by YOUCAT Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2019
An exciting new Catechism to help children (ages 8-13) and parents to discover their Catholic faith together.
In engaging, child-friendly language, accompanied by talking points for parents and teachers, YOUCAT for Kids explores:
• Creation • The Creed • The Sacraments • The...
by Mary Kathleen Glavich, SND
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
At a certain parish the tabernacle was a wide rectangle set into the wall. One day the primary children were learning about the Mass. At the end of the lesson, Sister asked, "Does anyone have any questions?"With furrowed brow, a child inquired, "Why does Father put Jesus into the microwave?"Kids....
by Annalisa Butticci
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Catholic Italy is a destination for migrants from Nigeria and Ghana, who bring their own form of Christianity—Pentecostalism, the most Protestant of Christian faiths. At the heart of Annalisa Butticci’s ethnography is a paradox. Believers on both sides are driven by a desire to find sensuous, material ways to make the divine visible and tangible.
Turning to the World
Social Justice and the Common Good since Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) was a watershed event in the history of the Catholic Church, a critical self-examination that sought at once to rediscover the most ancient sources of Christian thought and practice and to bring these traditions into the modern world. While few question the...
The Memoirs of St. Peter
A New Translation of the Gospel According to Mark
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**"A fresh, vigorous new translation of the Gospel of Mark."—The American Conservative
"Professor Pakaluk provides not only a thrilling new rendering of the ancient Greek text but also provides lively scholarship in the commentary that follows his translation of Mark's sixteen chapters."—The...
Revered and Reviled
A Re-Examination of Vatican Council I
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Revered and Reviled explores the ways that Vatican Council I influenced the important issues of papal primacy and the infallible teaching magisterium of the Pope. The book clarifies and corrects many misunderstood concepts and conclusions about the first Council. Although this is, first and foremost,...
Possessed by the Virgin
Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In the early 1980s, in a rural village in South India, a Dalit woman miscarried. She hovered on the edge of death--until the Virgin Mary led her to a chapel and possessed her. For years, hundreds of ailing Catholics and Hindus came to this woman for healing, and Mary made them well. Two decades later,...
African Catholic
Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Elizabeth Foster examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to create an authentically “African” church.
The New American Bible, eBook
The Leading Catholic Resource for Understanding Holy Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Inspiration and Guidance for Life
Scripture is deeply rooted in the Church’s worship and is for expanded use in your own personal study. Allow God’s inspired Word to provide guidance in your daily life.
The highly anticipated revised edition of the New American Bible (NABRE) is the...
Ministerio hispano
Una introducción
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Timothy Matovina, a leading speaker and expert on the growth of Hispanics in the Catholic Church in the United States, offers a timely and much-needed introduction to ministry with Hispanic Catholics. Written in Spanish for pastoral ministers preparing for or involved in Hispanic ministry of all kinds,...
The Promise of Francis
The Man, the Pope, and the Challenge of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
With more than four decades of firsthand experience reporting from Vatican City, David Willey explores the religious and personal background of Pope Francis and his ability to fulfill the promises of reform made during the first two years of his papacy.
Sex crimes and cover-ups, financial scandal,...