Cardinal: 129 books

« On pensait, près de douze ans après sa mort, n'avoir plus rien à lire de nouveau de Marie Cardinal. Il restait le souvenir de plusieurs livres. Et surtout celui, toujours vif, des Mots pour le dire, qu'on recommandait encore à de jeunes lectrices, car, à travers une expérience personnelle,...

« Il y a quelques années, j'ai lu Les mots pour le dire de Marie Cardinal. Plus que l'enthousiasme de la personne qui m'a conseillé ce livre, c'est son titre qui m'a persuadée : cinq mots pris à Boileau qui décrivent clairement tout le programme et l'ambition d'un romancier. Pourtant Cardinal...

This intimate, affectionate portrait of Pope John Paul II by his longtime secretary and confidant reveals fascinating new details about the opinions, hopes, fears, and dramatic life of this public man. “I had accompanied him for almost forty years: twelve in Kraków and then twenty-seven...

Mémoires Cardinal de Retz, homme d’État et mémorialiste français (1613-1679) Ce livre numérique présente «Mémoires», de Cardinal de Retz, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet...

 Madame, quelque répugnance que je puisse avoir à vous donner l’histoire de ma vie, qui a été agitée de tant d’aventures différentes, néanmoins, comme vous me l’avez commandé, je vous obéis, même aux dépens de ma...

In a series of conversations two Jesuits—one who was the head of the largest diocese in the world and other other who worked among prisoners and the disadvantaged—ask what faith can mean for life, what future young people have in the church, and what must be changed so that Christianity itself has a future.

Born out of a speech celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, in which emperors Constantine I and Licinius granted Christians legal rights, this book by Cardinal Angelo Scola gives attention to the crisis of religious freedom in the twenty-first century. Let’s Not Forget God outlines...

When John Henry Newman spoke of his hopes for the renewal of the Church, he imagined not only sunshine and the blossoming of new life, but icy winds and torrential rain. His forecast of 'an English Spring' was to prove remarkably far-sighted. With affection and wry humour, another English cardinal,...

With an introduction by Pope Benedict XVI and including information previously suppressed, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Bertone, definitively reveals and explains one of the most controversial events in twentieth-century Catholicism—the 1917 apparition of the Virgin Mary at Fatima. During...

His father was Philippe Emanuel de Gondi, Comte, de Joigni, General of the Galleys of France and Knight of the King’s Orders; and his mOther was Frances Marguerite, daughter of the Comte de Rochepot, Knight of the King’s Orders, and of Marie de Lannoy, sovereign of Commercy and Euville. Pierre de...

Pope Benedict XVI has proclaimed a year dedicated to St. Paul, beginning on June 29, 2008. Readers can celebrate the "Year of St. Paul" by praying through this unique collection of meditations by renowned biblical scholar and retired archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini. In simple and moving...

During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in non-Indigenous households. Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh delves into the personal and provocative narrative...