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by Ronald Modras
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Ignatian Humanism puts into perspective our contemporary search for a spirituality that responds both to our search for meaning and desire for God." John W. Padberg, S.J., director, Institute of Jesuit Sources"Modras integrates fascinating history, contemporary theology, and inspiring spirituality...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
Sex, Scandal and Secularism
Crisis in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the cardinals converge on the Vatican City to select a new pope, they face a church in steep decline in the Western world. Empty pews are indicative of a community that has lost faith with its church, a church that has been consistently conservative and has failed to address either the modern issues...
Catholics at a Crossroads
Coverup, Crisis, and Cure
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
IT IS THE GREATEST CRISIS EVER TO FACE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH—the sexual molestation of minors by priests and the way the church hierarchy tried to cover up the situation, endangering more children in the process. Once it became common knowledge in 2002, the ugly reality of a dysfunctional institution...
Unruly Catholics from Dante to Madonna
Faith, Heresy, and Politics in Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
During the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church went through a period of liberal reform under the stewardship of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. Successive popes sharply reversed course, enforcing conservative ideological values and silencing progressive voices in the Church. Consequently,...
Getting Past Perfect
How to Find Joy and Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Family Life. (Second Place).
Do you ever feel like a raging tsumani, running through the house like a whirlwind and yelling at the top of your voice while the kids drag their feet and fight with one another as you desperately try to find lost...
by Joann F. Price
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Pope Benedict XVI: A Biography is an incisive exploration of the life and career of the current head of the Roman Catholic Church, with an emphasis on his theological positions and contributions as a theologian. Written by a Catholic priest who is an expert on Bavarian theology, the book looks at...
Vatican II
Fifty Years of Evolution and Revolution in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Fifty years after the start of the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church continues to struggle with the changes the council unleashed. Vernacular masses, dialogues with other faiths, new roles for the laity, and a revolution in how we understand Church –all of these issues continue to spark...
Opus Dei
An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church.
Opus Dei (literally “the...
The Church
The Evolution of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“The Church is a lucid, balanced, and readable book—a work of integration that is always reasonable, well informed, honest, and deeply hopeful.”
—Commonweal
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In The Church, renowned religious historian and Vatican expert Richard P. McBrien offers a sweeping history of the...
Feeding Your Family's Soul
Dinner Table Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Today's parents consistently struggle to meet their deadlines and check off their "to-do" lists, and are often stressed, exhausted, and lamenting. This often results in well-meaning parents putting off their children's faith formation for "another time" or relying on others to...
This Is the Faith
A Complete Explanation of the Catholic Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Originally published in 1951 (with minor updates in 2002), the book covers the nature of God, the nature of man, the meaning of life, the nature of religion, the sources of Faith, the necessity of prayer, the duty of belief, the consequences of sin, the Commandments of God, the Holy Trinity, belief...
by James Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Perhaps this is the first time in your life that you have handled a book in which the doctrines of the Catholic Church are expounded by one of her own sons. You have, no doubt, heard and read many things regarding our Church; but has not your information come from teachers justly liable to suspicion?...
by St. John of the Cross, St. Alphonsus Liguori
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Your Special 2 for 1 Illustrated and annotated edition includes:• 14 Stations of the Cross by Jacob Rice• Extensive Glossary of time-honored Catholic expressions• Stabat Mater in both English and Latin• Essay Narrative on the Last Hours of John of the Cross+Dark Night of the...