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So Very Much the Best of Us
Songs of Praise in Prose
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Is Brian Doyle the most passionate Catholic storyteller in America? Here is new evidence that he is. In this brand new compilation of some of his best stories that have appeared in various publications throughout the world, Doyle explores the promise of Catholicism in America that he has experienced and observed from his childhood through today.
Vatican II
The Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
By encouraging engagement with the modern world and a refocusing of traditional teaching, the Second Vatican Council brought new life into the practice of Catholicism. The council's impact on the Church is still playing out today, and with many current church issues finding their roots in differing...
Moralizing Cinema
Film, Catholicism, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This volume is part of the recent interest in the study of religion and popular media culture (cinema in particular), but it strongly differs from most of this work in this maturing discipline. Contrary to most other edited volumes and monographs on film and religion, Moralizing Cinema will not focus...
The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments
A Catholic Journey through Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Sacraments. (Second Place).
In the first book to directly integrate the Twelve Steps with the practice of Catholicism, Scott Weeman, founder and director of Catholic in Recovery, pairs his personal story with compassionate straight talk to...
All In
Why Belonging to the Catholic Church Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
What’s the one thing that defines your life and brings you the most good, the most love? Pat Gohn knows what her one thing is: “More than any single factor in my life, belonging to Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church has had the greatest impact on me. Faith gives meaning to everything in my life.”...
by Sigrid Undset
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Sigrid Undset is among the great modern writers of the twentieth century and was an adult convert to Catholicism. This forgotten treasure from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter is a fascinating collection of saints’ lives, a prophetic critique of modernity, and a surprisingly...
The Catholic Church & Science
Answering the Questions, Exposing the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Were the Middle Ages dark for science? Did the pope say Darwin was right? From the Big Bang to Galileo, from the origins of life on Earth to the existence of life on other planets, The Catholic Church and Science clears away the fog of falsehood and misunderstanding to reveal a faith whose doctrines...
by Rev. John Trigilio Jr., Rev. Kenneth Brighenti, Rev. Monsignor James Cafone
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
An unintimidating guide to understanding the Catholic Mass
Throughout the centuries, the liturgy of the Church has taken a variety of regional and historical forms, but one thing has remained constant: the Mass has always been the central form of Catholic worship.
Catholic Mass For Dummies...
Super Girls and Halos
My Companions on the Quest for Truth, Justice, and Heroic Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Gender Issues. (Second Place).
Award-winning author Maria Morera Johnson follows up her bestselling book, My Badass Book of Saints, with a unique and daring exploration of the cardinal virtues through the saints and heroines of science fiction,...
New Women of the Old Faith
Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the "New Woman" and Catholics' struggle to define...
The Building of an American Catholic Church
The Episcopacy of John Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Originally published in 1988. The new-found freedom and changing attitudes towards Catholics after the American Revolution presented the Catholic Church with its first real opportunity to prosper in the English speaking "new world". But the Catholic Church could not take advantage of this...
Excommunicated from the Union
How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Anti-Catholicism has had a long presence in American history. The Civil War in 1861 gave Catholic Americans a chance to prove their patriotism once and for all. Exploring how Catholics sought to use their participation in the war to counteract religious and political nativism in the United States,...
And GOD saw it all was very good
Catholic LGBT People in Europe Telling Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
“The stories of the LGBT Catholics in this book will make a difference in your life” assures Sister Jeannine Gramick in her prologue. Here you will find 34 personal stories divided into the six themes (Family; Is Catholicism home; A religious life?; A long journey; Significant events; Working...
Au risque de la conversion
L'expérience québécoise de la mission au XXe siècle (1945–1980)
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
In this ambitious and pioneering work, Catherine Foisy puts the experiences of Quebec missionaries into perspective, describing the ways in which they interweave with the socio-ecclesiastical transformations peculiar to Quebec and with those of Catholicism in mission countries. This tapestry, extending...