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Catholic Shrines in Chennai, India

The politics of renewal and apostolic legacy

by Thomas Charles Nagy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016

Though proportionally small, India's Christians are a populous and significant minority. Focussing on various Roman Catholic churches and shrines located in Chennai, a large city in South India where activities concerning saintal revival and shrinal development have taken place in the recent past,...
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The Shared Parish

Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism

by Brett C. Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

As faith communities in the United States grow increasingly more diverse, many churches are turning to the shared parish, a single church facility shared by distinct cultural groups who retain their own worship and ministries. The fastest growing and most common of these are Catholic parishes shared...
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by John Henry (Cardinal) Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Venerable John Henry Newman, CO (21 February 1801 11 August 1890) was a Roman Catholic priest and Cardinal who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism in October 1845. In early life, he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to...
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by The Portsmouth Institute
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013

Newman and the Intellectual Tradition highlights the proceedings of the 2010 Portsmouth Institute on Newman and the Intellectual Tradition. John Henry Newman was an Anglican priest for two decades in the 1800s, and was one of the founders of the Oxford Movement, which sought to reinvigorate the Church...
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by John Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016

What happened when, after a life-changing study-tour of Peru, a successful US attorney abandoned his law practice to volunteer with a religious organization and travel to Peru to fight for human rights in the midst of a culture of violence and terror?Not what he expected.In his sometimes...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

What does it mean to be—or to have been raised—Catholic in America today, now that formally nonpracticing Catholics outnumber the memberships of any other single denomination? Catholic Lives, Contemporary America is a collection of informed and spirited essays focusing on Catholic lay practices...
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The Unhealed Wound

The Church, the Priesthood, and the Question of Sexuality

by Eugene Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015

Kennedy, a psychologist, former priest, and a leading Catholic author and scholar, addresses one of the most compelling yet undiscussed issues in the Church: human sexuality. The Unhealed Wound is a penetrating and insightful study of the unresolved conflicts Catholics face regarding both their sexuality...
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Polarization in the US Catholic Church

Naming the Wounds, Beginning to Heal

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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016

It is no secret: the body of Christ in the United States is broken. While universality—and unity amid diversity—is a fundamental characteristic of Roman Catholicism, all-too-familiar issues related to gender, sexuality, race, and authority have rent the church. Healthy debates, characteristic...
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People of Faith

Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

by Mariza de Carvalho Soares
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011

In People of Faith, Mariza de Carvalho Soares reconstructs the everyday lives of Mina slaves transported in the eighteenth century to Rio de Janeiro from the western coast of Africa, particularly from modern-day Benin. She describes a Catholic lay brotherhood formed by the enslaved Mina congregants...
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God's Mirror

Renewal and Engagement in French Catholic Intellectual Culture in the Mid–Twentieth Century

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God’s Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers and...
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Why Catholics Can't Sing

Revised and Updated With New Grand Conclusions and Good Advice

by Thomas Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

In this informative and entertaining critique of music in the Catholic Church, Thomas Day outlines a stinging indictment of the influence of popular culture on American Catholicism, particularly as expressed in church music. Taking aim at the Irish-American repertoire of songs that overwhelms Catholic...
Cover of Detained: emails and musings from a spiritual journey through Abu Ghraib, Kandahar, and other garden spots
by Brian Rees
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015

Over the course of five deployments to the Middle East since 9/11, Colonel (retired) Brian Rees documented his daily life at Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Kandahar, Camp Bucca and elsewhere, by writing emails to his friends and family:…they fired their warning shots, disabling (engine block) shots,...
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by John Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958 examines the most momentous years in papal history. Popes Benedict XV (1914-1922), Pius XI (1922-1939), and Pius XII (1939-1958) faced the challenges of two world wars and the Cold War, and threats posed by totalitarian dictatorships like Italian...
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Holy People, Holy Places

Foundations of Our Faith Volume 2

by Les Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

From the author of the highly acclaimed and bestselling series 25 Questions for Young Catholics comes this three-volume guide to the fundamentals of Catholic life, teaching and practice. Surveying the central teachings of our faith, such as the sacraments, the life and ministry of the Church and the...
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