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by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A brief analysis of the biblical basis for the Catholic dogma of the Miraculous Conception, written by an anonymous author.
All for Jesus
The Easy Ways of Divine Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
One of Fr. Faber's greatest books; and definitely his most encouraging; for it was written precisely to help us save our souls by "serving Jesus out of love;" for "everything comes easy to love." Gives us powerful motives for loving God. Says if we did; it would be with us as it...
by Rev. Fr. Paul O'Sullivan O.P.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
A very optimistic book showing how an "ordinary" Catholic can become a great saint without ever doing anything "extraordinary"--just by using the many opportunities for holiness that to most people lie hidden in each day. Written with an assurance of success that is totally convincing and infectious. Many easy but infallible means of reaching great sanctity.
God's Secret Agents
Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
One evening in 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk, England. They were Jesuit priests, Englishmen, and their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic...
Saints Behaving Badly
The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
From thieves and extortionists to mass murderers and warmongers, up-close and embarrassingly personal snapshots of those sanctified people with the most unsaintly pasts in the history of Christianity.
Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very...
Romantic Catholics
France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In this well-written and imaginatively structured book, Carol E. Harrison brings to life a cohort of nineteenth-century French men and women who argued that a reformed Catholicism could reconcile the divisions in French culture and society that were the legacy of revolution and empire. They include,...
by Hilaire Belloc
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 1992
Belloc shows that the Crusades were a titanic struggle between Christian civilization and "the Turk," savage Mongols who had embraced Islam. He explains the practical reasons why the Crusaders initially succeeded and why they ultimately failed then he predicts the re-emergence of Islam,...
A History of the Popes
From Peter to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world—the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus' chief disciple, through Pope Benedict XVI today, the popes have been key players in virtually all of the great dramas of the western world in the last...
THE JESUITS
A STUDY IN COUNTER-REVOLUTION
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This book — a fascinating and learned account of the Pope’s Jihadis, the ‘Assassins of Christendom’ and the shock-troops of the Catholic counter-revolution — seeks to substitute historical dialectics for theology or archaeology as the chief clue to the investigation of the great medieval...
The Mass
The Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
An insightful and practical exploration of Catholicism’s most sacred tradition.
The Mass: The Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition is an engaging and authoritative guide to Catholicism’s most distinctive practice. And now, with the Church introducing revised language for the Mass, Catholics...
Encountering Truth
Meeting God in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Experience the morning homilies of Pope Francis and witness how he continues to change the life of the Catholic Church.
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Shortly after seven in the morning, Pope Francis gives a brief homily in the little Vatican chapel of Saint Martha, in front of an audience that is always different: gardeners,...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
"Where Love Is, God Is" (sometimes also translated as Where Love Is, There God Is Also) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The title references the Catholic hymn Ubi Caritas. One English translation of this short story as translated by Nathan Haskell Dole uses the alternate title translation of "Where Love Is, There God Is Also".
Christianity and Evolution
Reflections on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
The author of The Phenomenon of Man reconciles passionate faith with the rigor of scientific thinking.
With his unique background as a geologist, paleontologist, and Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a powerful exponent of the view that scientific theories could comfortably coexist...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History...