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John XXIII
The Medicine of Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
People of God is a brand new series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men have known challenges and...
Dorothy Day
Writings from Commonweal
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Dorothy Day has been described as "the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism." Outside The Catholic Worker (which she edited from 1933 to her death), Day wrote for no other publication so often and over such an extended period-covering...
Confirmation
How a Sacrament of God's Grace Became All about Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
What are we doing when we confirm teenagers? Why is the religious education of teenagers so perplexing? Why is confirmation often a moment of "graduation" out of parish life?
Confirmation: How a Sacrament of God's Grace Became All about Us tells the story of how confirmation, more...
Everyday Sacrament
The Messy Grace of Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In Everyday Sacrament: The Messy Grace of Parenting Laura Kelly Fanucci sees the Catholic sacraments through the smudged and sticky lens of life with little ones. From dinnertime chaos to bath-time giggles to never-ending loads of laundry, Laura stumbles into the surprising truth of what the seven...
This Economy Kills
Pope Francis on Capitalism and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
When Pope Francis wrote in his apostolic letter The Joy of the Gospel that the economy of the West is one that “kills,” he was immediately labeled by some as a Marxist. Criticisms came fast and furious, not only from financial columnists and conservative cable personalities, but also from some...
by Daniel J. Harrington SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
These accounts of the Maccabean revolt, by which the sons of Mattathias reclaimed the temple of Jerusalem, tell an important story of the founding of the Jewish people. "The Hammerers" is the meaning of the nickname "Maccabees," given to Mattathias's sons, who lived in a time of...
Luis Antonio Tagle
Leading by Listening
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has been called “the Asian Pope Francis,” because of his humility, his connectedness to the lives of everyday Catholics, and his insistence on the church’s duty to care for the poor and the marginalized. In Luis Antonio Tagle: Leading by Listening, veteran Catholic...
Waiting in Joyful Hope
Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2018-2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Prepare spiritually for the coming of Christ with this popular and inviting annual guide. During the especially busy Advent and Christmas seasons, this book offers brief, down-to-earth reflections that bring prayer and Scripture into everyday life in a thought-provoking and lasting way. Through Sister...
The Taste of Silence
How I Came to Be at Home with Myself
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
At nineteen Bieke Vandekerckhove fell ill. The diagnosis was devastating: the fatal motor neuron disease ALS. Life expectancy: two to five years. So what did she do with the paltry bit of life that was left?
By force of circumstance she was led to Saint Lioba Convent in Egmond-Binnen. There...
Catholic Charities USA
100 Years at the Intersection of Charity and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In honor of Catholic Charities USA's centennial celebration, this masterful work explores the development of Catholic Charities in the United States over the last one hundred years.
Featuring contributions by renowned Catholic scholars and respected leaders in the Catholic Charities movement,...
Telling the Story of Jesus
Word-Communion-Mission
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle offers one of the most inspiring and influential voices in the global Catholic Church today. In Telling the Story of Jesus, he encourages readers to be in communion with Jesus, who is the story of God. The cardinal tells us that this communion is found in the Eucharist...
Conversation With Saint Benedict
The Rule in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The Rule of Saint Benedict meets contemporary culture-the connection points and the sticking points between the two are the focus of Conversation with Saint Benedict. Renowned Benedictine scholar Terrence Kardong considers various aspects of modern culture that he considers worrisome and the light...
Only the Gospel is Revolutionary
The Church in the Reform of Pope Francis
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
From the beginning of Pope Francis’s pontificate, Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga has been at the center of the Holy Father’s efforts to reform the Roman Curia and the church. This is clear in his role as moderator of the council of nine cardinals from around the world entrusted with the...
The Gift of Administration
New Testament Foundations for the Vocation of Administrative Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
In his First Letter to the Corinthians Paul cites “administrators” as one of God’s gifts to the Christian community (1 Cor 12:28). But many who serve in administrative service today have difficulty seeing how their everyday work is an expression of discipleship. This book, written by an experienced...