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Relative Strangers
Italian Protestants in the Catholic World
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Italian Protestants? Few people seem to have heard of them, but the author's mother's immigrant Italian family was Protestant while his father's were Catholic immigrants from Sicily. Relative Strangers describes the author's search for the religious roots of his parents' families in northern Italy...
by H. A. Ironside
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Now the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope, has recently issued an encyclical which he put forth on Christmas day which has attracted considerable attention. It occupied a large place in the daily press and I am dependent upon that for the account of it. I realize, of course, that the press...
by Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This famous Novena guides the Catholic day by day in obtaining an increase of the priceless seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost. In seven different ways these Gifts make the Christian soul responsive to the daily inspirations of the Holy Spirit, leading him to a profound respect for the things of God (Fear),...
Good News About Sex & Marriage (Revised Edition)
Answers to Your Honest Questions about Catholic Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
The author, a diocesan director of marriage and family life, answers the questions about human sexuality and marriage that he always encounters in the numerous adult audiences he addresses. He provides thoughtful responses that present Catholic Church teaching in a fresh, thoroughly appealing, and convincing manner.
Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book is the first to analyze the impacts of migration and transnationalism on global Catholicism. It explores how migration and transnationalism are producing diverse spaces and encounters that are moulding the Roman Catholic Church as institution and parish, pilgrimage and network, community...
Behind the Lodge Door
The Church, State and Freemasonry in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
A probing analysis of Freemasonry in the U.S. in general, but especially relative to religious education, opposition to the Catholic Church, directing national social policy and how Masons attract members. Thoroughly documented. Immensely revealing. Covers the birth and rise of Freemasonry, the Catholic...
by H. A. Ironside
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
These papers are personal letters addressed to a parish priest of the Church of Borne, Father A. M. S.—, whose acquaintance I made on a railway journey, and with this cultured gentleman it was a pleasure to converse. When we parted, he accepted from me a little volume dealing with a portion of Holy...
Catholicism in Dialogue
Conversations Across Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Mutual understanding between the faithful of the world's great religions is no longer a luxury; all over the world, religions are challenged to find common ground in the cause of peace and justice, and in the face of war and exploitation. Meanwhile, stereotypes, antipathies and sectarian isolation...
The Grace of Everyday Saints
How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
St. Brigid Church was one of San Francisco’s great landmarks in the early 1990s. The church itself had weathered depressions and natural disasters, epic earthquakes and a massive fire. Its loyal congregation was active, vibrant, and growing. But in 1993, without warning, the Catholic archdiocese...
Transforming Parish Communications
Growing the Church Through New Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
"Are we still a Church capable of warming hearts? A Church capable of leading people back to Jerusalem? Of bringing them home?" - Pope Francis, Meeting with the Bishops of Brazil, 28 July 2013.Pope Francis, like his predecessors Benedict XVI and John Paul II, is calling for Catholics to embrace...
PADRES
The National Chicano Priest Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the 1960s, Mexican American Catholics experienced racism and discrimination within the U.S. Catholic church, as white priests and bishops maintained a racial divide in all areas of the church's ministry. To oppose this religious apartheid and challenge the...
by A. M. Pope
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
First published in 1890, this book contains the memoirs of Vincent de Paul, translated into English from the original French. Vincent de Paul (1581 – 1660) was a French Roman Catholic priest famous for dedicating his life to helping the poor. Canonized in 1737, he is considered a saint in the Anglican...
Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious
Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Pat Gohn draws on decades of women's ministry experience, her popular Catholic women's podcast Among Women, and her own story as a wife and mother, proclaiming the Church's compelling vision of every woman: you have dignity, you are gifted, and you have a mission. The lively and unforgettable Gohn guides...
Living God's Word
Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year A
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
This new series of reflections on the Sunday readings by a noted Scripture scholar offers fresh insight into the land and people of the Bible. The first of three books, Living God's Word: Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year A updates columns from The Catholic Register, Canada's national Catholic...