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by St. Gregory of Nyssa, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This edition of On the Holy Spirit comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents. St. Gregory of Nyssa (c 335 after 394) was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory of Nazianzus. His significance has long been recognized in the...
When I Was a Child
Children's Interpretations of First Communion
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
First Communion is generally understood as a rite of passage in which seven- and eight-year-old Catholic children transform from baptized participants in the Church to members of the body of Christ, the universal Catholic Church. This official Church account, however, ignores what the rite actually...
Common Threads
A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long struggled...
by Joseph Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Catholic author Joseph Anthony offers readers a solid introduction to the "Summa Theologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with St. Thomas's life and times, readers will explore the literary genre of the "Summa," why St. Thomas wrote it and his intended audience, and will take a walk through...
Can a Seamless Garment Be Truly Torn?
Questions Surrounding the Jewish-Catholic Löb Family, 1881–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The conversion of Lutz Löb and Jenny van Gelder from Judaism to Roman Catholicism dramatically changed the lives of the extended Löb family. This scientific-historical study traces the personal and spiritual journey of Lutz and Jenny from their baptisms in 1907 through the lives of their children....
Bernhard Lichtenberg
Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of the Nazi Regime
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Bernhard Lichtenberg: Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of the Nazi Regime is the definitive English biography of the martyred Nazi-era Berlin provost, Bernhard Lichtenberg. This work presents a broad overview of Bernhard Lichtenberg’s life (1875–1943) in the context of history. It discusses the...
Prayer Seeds
A Gathering of Blessings, Reflections, and Poems for Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Named one of the 50 best spiritual books of 2017 by Spirituality & Practice. Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Prayer Collections (First Place). and a 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers Award: Prayer & Spirituality (First Place).
Some of Sr. Joyce Rupp’s most...
A Book of Uncommon Prayer
100 Celebrations of the Miracle & Muddle of the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Acclaimed, award-winning essayist and novelist Brian Doyle (1956-2017)--whose writing, in the words of Mary Oliver, is "a gift to us all"--presents one hundred original prayers that evoke his deep Catholic belief in the mystery and miracle of the ordinary (and the whimsical) in human life.
In,...
The Good Pope
The Making of a Saint and the Remaking of the Church--The Story of John XXIII and Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
“John XXIII was, in the best possible sense, a revolutionary—a Pope of modernization who kept in continuity with the church’s past, yet made even the most enlightened of his 20th century predecessors seem like voices of another age.”
—Time magazine
“The story of Good Pope John is...
My Cousin the Saint
A Story of Love, Miracles, and an Italian Family Reunited
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
An inspiring story of faith and family across two continents
Like millions of other Italians in the early twentieth century, Justin Catanoso's grandfather immigrated to America to escape poverty and hardship. Nearly a hundred years later, Justin, born and raised in New Jersey, knows little...
Dynamic Catholicism
A Historical Catechism
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Formerly Essential Catholicism, this book has been retitled to reflect how, through the centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has evolved in many aspects of its teaching. The new title also reflects how theologians today grapple with ever new ways of understanding many facets of Catholic belief and...
Awakening Vocation
A Theology of Christian Call
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Does God have a specific plan for each of us, or is it more like general guidelines for all of us? How do my gifts and abilities, my personality and particular circumstances, impact my vocation? What is the role of the church in this process? What are the needs of the world that call us to respond?
Awakening...
Embodied Words, Spoken Signs
Sacramentality and the Word in Rahner and Chauvet
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The twentieth century witnessed renewed interest in a Roman Catholic theology of the word. The contributions of Karl Rahner and sacramental theologian Louis-Marie Chauvet demonstrate the Roman Catholic conviction that the word is fundamentally sacramental: it has the capacity to bear God’s presence...
Church and Society
The Laurence J. McGinley Lectures, 1988-2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
One of the leading theologians of our time, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., has written and lectured on a wide range of topics across his distinguished career, and for a wide range of audiences. Integrating faith and scholarship, he has created a rich body of work that, in the words of one observer,...