Catholicism category: 4667 books
Suspicious Moderate
The Life and Writings of Francis à Sancta Clara (1598–1680)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The historiography of English Catholicism has grown enormously in the last generation, led by scholars such as Peter Lake, Michael Questier, Stefania Tutino, and others. In Suspicious Moderate, Anne Ashley Davenport makes a significant contribution to that literature by presenting a long overdue intellectual...
In the Lógos of Love
Promise and Predicament in Catholic Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
So much has changed about Catholic intellectual life in the half century since the end of the Second Vatican Council that it has become difficult to locate the core concepts that make up the tradition. In the Lógos of Love is a collection of essays that grew out of a 2013 conference on Catholic intellectual...
The Catholic Labyrinth
Power, Apathy, and a Passion for Reform in the American Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism. Yet conservatives have increasingly dominated the church hierarchy. In The Catholic Labyrinth, Peter McDonough tells...
Becoming Catholic
Finding Rome in the American Religious Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Conversion has been an essential element of Christianity, and especially of Roman Catholicism, for centuries--from the Apostle Paul's dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus to the spiritual transformations of such prominent modern individuals as Cardinal Newman, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Thomas...
Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter
The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
When an independent Poland reappeared on the map of Europe after World War I, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as “Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter.” All the same, the relations of the Second Polish Republic with the Church—both its representatives inside...
by Erin Brigham
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Bishop Robert W. McElroy published "A Church for the Poor" in America Magazine on Oct. 21, 2013. Following conversations with colleagues at Santa Clara University, the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, and Faith in Public Life, the Lane Center pulled together a roundtable...
Keeping the Vow
The Untold Story of Married Catholic Priests
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
At one of the largest Catholic churches in America, hundreds of people make their way into the spacious, well-appointed sanctuary for an evening Mass. The congregation is several times larger than most Protestant megachurches. In addition to its twenty weekly services, eight choirs, and elementary...
Catholic Cultures
How Parishes Can Respond to the Changing Face of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
From its earliest days, Christianity has been lived and proclaimed in the language and symbols of each receiving culture. Today, these cultures include the new ethnic groups moving into our parishes. They also include new generations of Catholic young adults, whose childhood experiences of their faith...
Catholicism Engaging Other Faiths
Vatican II and its Impact
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
This book assesses how Vatican II opened up the Catholic Church to encounter, dialogue, and engagement with other world religions. Opening with a contribution from the President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, it next explores the impact, relevance,...
by Relaxed Venues
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
New Baby? Have you been asked to be a Godparent for a Catholic Newborn? Relaxed Venues provides some of the background for this sacrament of Christian Initiation into the church. Provides sample text for this Catholic rite, along with the godparent's role and requirements."Baptism constitutes...
by Tim Rohr
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Recently, the elderly owner of an NBA basketball team made a racial remark and was forced to give up his team. A well-known TV chef admitted to using the "N" word thirty years ago and her show was cancelled. An NFL football player made what was judged to be an intolerant comment about the first openly...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Recent research reveals a precipitous decrease in Catholic adherents across Latin America. Since 1970, numerous Latin Americans have professed a shift to Protestantism. Scholars have analyzed...
Converts to the Real
Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its prodigious growth goes to a surprising group of early enthusiasts: Catholic intellectuals. Tracing debates in Europe from existentialism to speculative realism, he shows why European philosophy bears the mark of Catholicism.
Catholic Catechism Critique
Is it Better to Enter the Door of Life by Catholic Keys or by Knocking?
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The Catholic Catechism (Pope John Paul II edition) claims to be true and foundational to Catholicism. Catholic Catechism Critique examines the Catechism’s fallibilities and advises Catholics to write a version of the Catholic Catechism that addresses and corrects logical fallacies within it. Catholic...