Catholicism category: 4667 books
One in Christ
Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Today, the images of Catholic priests and nuns marching in 1960s civil rights protests are iconic. Their cassocks and habits clothed the movement in sacred garments. But by the time of those protests Catholic Civil Rights activism already had a long history, one in which the religious leadership of...
Our Lady of the Exile
Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1997
Our Lady of the Exile is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady Charity in Miami. Drawing on a wide range of sources and using both historical and ethnographic methods, the book examines the religious life of the Cuban exiles who visit the shrine. Those pilgrims...
The Thrill of the Chaste (Catholic Edition)
Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Dawn Eden, internationally known speaker and author, presents a completely revised Catholic edition of her bestselling work, The Thrill of the Chaste. In this version, Eden shares her story of conversion to Catholicism and invites readers into a Catholic understanding of chastity and its spiritual...
by Reverend Charles Mortimer Carty, Reverend Leslie Rumble, Catholic Way Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
RADIO REPLIES: VOLUMES 1 TO 3 REVEREND CHARLES MORTIMER CARTY REVEREND LESLIE RUMBLE - A Catholic Classic! - 4,374 Questions and Answers, Over 650,000 Words - Includes an Active Index, Table of Contents and Layered NCX Navigation - Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore Paperback Editions: Volume 1:...
Gay and Catholic
Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Gender Issues Category (First Place).
In this first book from an openly lesbian and celibate Catholic, widely published writer and blogger Eve Tushnet recounts her spiritual and intellectual journey from liberal atheism to faithful Catholicism and shows...
Sexual Authenticity
An Intimate Reflection on Homosexuality and Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Real glimpses into the hearts and lives of other people are rare...Columnist and author Melinda Selmys gives readers an unusual opportunity to explore the topic of homosexuality and the Catholic Faith from a fresh, sincere perspective. Her intensely personal reflections help clarify the misconceptions...
Roman Catholicism in the United States
A Thematic History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The essays written by established and newer scholars seeks to fill a void in the lacuna by bringing to bear the centrality of Catholic people, groups, and movements on U.S. history, mainly from the mid-19th century to the present, with the essays “linked by a common desire to enrich narratives of United States history.
The Bread of the Strong
Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Contributing to the ongoing excavation of the spiritual lifeworld of Dorothy Day—“the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism”—The Bread of the Strong offers compelling new insight into the history of the Catholic Worker movement, including...
Catholicism in Dialogue
Conversations Across Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Mutual understanding between the faithful of the world's great religions is no longer a luxury; all over the world, religions are challenged to find common ground in the cause of peace and justice, and in the face of war and exploitation. Meanwhile, stereotypes, antipathies and sectarian isolation...
College communities abroad
Education, migration and Catholicism in early modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This bookrepositions early modern Catholic abroad colleges in their interconnected regional, national and transnational contexts. From the sixteenth century, Irish, English and Scots Catholics founded more than fifty colleges in France, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, the Papal States and the Habsburg...
The Gothic Ideology
Religious Hysteria and anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
The Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an ‘other’ against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The ‘Gothic ideology’ is identified as an intense religious anxiety, produced by...
by Donald Dietrich
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
From the French Revolution to Vatican II, the institutional Catholic Church has opposed much that modernity has offered men and women constructing their societies. This book focuses on the experiences of German Catholics as they have worked to engage their faith with their culture in the midst of...
Cardinal Bernardin's Stations of the Cross
Transforming Our Grief and Loss into a New Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, the archbishop of Chicago, had long been considered the leader of American Catholicism and was so widely respected throughout the world that he was thought to be the only American who might become Pope. His life took another path, however, after he was falsely accused of...
The Catholic Advantage
Why Health, Happiness, and Heaven Await the Faithful
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The controversial president of The Catholic League shows how the Church may be the best guide for achieving long-term health and happiness.
Religious Americans are by far the healthiest and happiest of any segment of the population—this is true across religions according to recent Gallup...