Catholic category: 4805 books
New Women of the Old Faith
Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the "New Woman" and Catholics' struggle to define...
by Fulton J. Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
“Our country must be built upon a justice and charity in which our individual rights and privileges are conditioned by the service of the common good.” The dominating influence of Capitalism and Communism over modern societies has eclipsed the Catholic Church’s communication of her social and...
To Heal, Proclaim, and Teach
The Essential Guide to Ministry in Today's Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Popular author, catechist, and creator of The Religion Teacher website Jared Dees learned a valuable lesson from his students: teaching is not the same as evangelization. He found instead—as in Jesus’ own ministry—if you focus first on healing the wounded, then proclaiming the Word of God, and...
Real Music
A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Real Music by Anthony Esolen is a comprehensive and fascinating guide, in print and song, to the great hymns of the Church. It shows that, unlike much of what is sung in too many Catholic churches today, good music, “Real Music”, combines great poetry with doctrinally sound lyrics and beautiful...
Living the Mass
How One Hour a Week Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Second Place, Liturgy category
Catholic Press Association book awards, 2012
“This little book is a gem!”
**From Sunday Mass to Monday mayhem: Can the central act of Catholic worship transform our daily lives? **
In the United States, only 25% of self-proclaimed Catholics attend...
by Robert Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christian church, representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world's population. The Catholic Church is a communion of 23 sui juris particular churches. Among these are...
by Patricia Montemurri
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
In a reconfigured farmhouse just a mile outside of the city limits of Detroit, a Jesuit priest and 25 men, women, and children gathered to celebrate Sunday mass on March 19, 1922. The Reverend John McNichols named the Catholic mission church Gesu, the Italian word for "Jesus." Gesu became one of Detroit's...
The Directory for Confessors, 1585
Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In the late sixteenth century, after the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation, the confessional became a key means to improve morals and religious life—and, for the Catholic clergy of New Spain, a new avenue through which they might reach the consciences of Spaniards and improve their treatment...
by Mary Lou Rosien
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Experiencing stress can be frustrating, upsetting, or downright debilitating. Managing it, however, can provide a new source of energy, accomplishment -- and everyday application of the Faith.Managing Stress with the Help of Your Catholic Faith helps readers confront, understand, and overcome...
Race with the Devil
My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Before he was the world's foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Before he published books highlighting and celebrating the great Catholic cultural tradition, he disseminated literature extolling the virtues of...
by Herbert Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Herbert Thurstons The Catholic Encyclopedia contains a discussion on Catholic relics, including their history, Church doctrine, and cases of abuses. This edition is specially formatted and includes a Table of Contents.
Mother Teresa Canonized or Crucified
A quest to liberate the Catholic Church from the corrupted Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Author Gerard presents his case against the Catholic hierarchy with a combination of cold logic and heated diatribe.
He believes the loving service of Mother Teresa should serve as an example for all Christians and that the Church should open the roles of priestess and bishop, cardinal and...
The Catholic Church in Southwest Iowa
A History of the Diocese of Des Moines
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Commissioned by the diocese to commemorate its centenary, this is the first book-length study of the history of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa. Formally established in 1911, the Diocese of Des Moines built on the foundations laid by earlier generations of missionaries, religious women,...
Parish and Place
Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and Place tells the story of how America's largest religion is responding at the local level to unprecedented cultural, racial, linguistic, ideological, and political diversification. Specifically, it explores...