Catholicism category: 4667 books
Possessed by the Virgin
Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In the early 1980s, in a rural village in South India, a Dalit woman miscarried. She hovered on the edge of death--until the Virgin Mary led her to a chapel and possessed her. For years, hundreds of ailing Catholics and Hindus came to this woman for healing, and Mary made them well. Two decades later,...
Hispanic Ministry in Catholic Parishes
A Summary Report of Findings from the National Study of Catholic Parishes with Hispanic Ministry
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 29, 2015
"The Church is called to be the house of the Father, with doors always wide open." - Pope Francis, The Joy of the GospelIn this groundbreaking nationwide study of Hispanic ministries in U.S. parishes, Dr. Hosffman Ospino describes not only the reality of the Church in the United States today,...
by Timothy Matovina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 2, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 2, 2019
Devotion to the Blessed Mother is at the heart of Hispanic Catholicism. Timothy Matovina, chairman of the theology department at the University of Notre Dame and former codirector of the Institute for Latino Studies, offers a short introduction to the important role of Mary in Catholic faith. This...
My Battle Against Hitler
Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
How does a person become Hitler’s number one enemy? Not through espionage or violence, it turns out, but by striking fearlessly at the intellectual and spiritual roots of National Socialism.
Dietrich von Hildebrand was a German Catholic thinker and teacher who devoted the full force of his...
by Joseph F. Girzone
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The author of the bestselling Joshua series and other popular inspirational books chronicles his own spiritual journey and describes with stunning honesty the difficult decisions he made along the way.
Joseph Girzone has attracted a tremendous following with his series of novels that imagine Jesus...
The Essential Pope Benedict XVI
His Central Writings and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On April 24, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, the twenty-first-century successor of the Apostle Peter and the spiritual leader of more than one billion Roman Catholics. Who is this complex man whose office grants him sole charge of the world's largest religion? How will...
The Promise of Francis
The Man, the Pope, and the Challenge of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
With more than four decades of firsthand experience reporting from Vatican City, David Willey explores the religious and personal background of Pope Francis and his ability to fulfill the promises of reform made during the first two years of his papacy.
Sex crimes and cover-ups, financial scandal,...
The End and the Beginning
Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
“As March gave way to April in the spring of 2005 and the world kept vigil outside the apostolic palace in Rome, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, then drawing to a poignant end, was already being described as one of the most consequential in two millennia of Christian history.”
With these...
The Pope
Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour comes the fascinating and revealing tale of an unprecedented transfer of power, and of two very different men - who both happen to live in the Vatican. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANTHONY HOPKINS...
Katharine Drexel
The Riches-to-Rags Life Story of an American Catholic Saint
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
On October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Katharine Drexel (1858–1955) to be a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Only the second American-born Catholic saint in history, Drexel founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891 and established more than sixty Blessed Sacrament missions...
by James Martin,SJ
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year Winner of a Christopher Award Winner of a Catholic Press Association Book AwardMeet some surprising friends of God in this warm and wonderful memoirJames Martin has led an entirely modern life: from a lukewarm Catholic childhood, to an education at the...
Mother Teresa (Revised Edition)
An Authorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was the founder of the Missionaries ofCharity and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, but her story is so much moreremarkable. From her childhood in the Balkans to her work in India, from attendingthe victims of war-torn Beirut to pleading with George Bush and Saddam Husseinto...
by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1998
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing...
The Story of a Soul
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Earlier editions of Therese's modern spiritual classic have often excluded passages, and refined her use of the French dialect often spoken by peasants. Edmondson translates everything and retains the charm that Therese intended to portray through changes in style. The result is a complete and unabridged...