Catholic category: 4805 books
by William May
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
"In this revision of his already classic text, William May shows us once again the wisdom of the Catholic Church's moral tradition in its application to contemporary bioethics. Illuminating and engaging -- and with the attention to nuance that marks all of May's writing." -- Edward J. Furton, M.A., Ph.D.,...
by Jay P. Corrin
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
In this sweeping volume, Corrin discusses the influences of Cecil and G. K. Chesterton, H. A. Reinhold, Hilaire Belloc, and many others on the development of Catholic social, economic, and political thought, with a special focus on Belloc and Reinhold as representatives of reactionary and progressive...
From Penitence to Charity
Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
From Penitence to Charity radically revises our understanding of women's place in the institutional and spiritual revival known as the Catholic Reformation. Focusing on Paris, where fifty new religious congregations for women were established in as many years, it examines women's active role as founders...
Everyday Divine
A Catholic Guide to Active Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Many people today are looking for opportunities to bring the spiritual into their everyday lives in non-traditional ways. Their days are so busy they can't imagine how they can fit in time to kneel or sit in prayer on a regular basis. As a result, they fly from one activity to the next at breakneck...
by John Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The Catholic Daily Reflections Series was written to help you enter more deeply into the Holy Scriptures and the Catholic Liturgy on a daily basis. Through these reflections and prayers, you are invited to embrace the Word of God in a personal, engaging, challenging and transforming way.
These...
by John Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
The Catholic Daily Reflections Series was written to help you enter more deeply into the Holy Scriptures and the Catholic Liturgy on a daily basis. Through these reflections and prayers, you are invited to embrace the Word of God in a personal, engaging, challenging and transforming way.
These...
My Life on the Rock
A Rebel Returns to the Catholic Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
My Life on the Rock, the dramatic conversion story of Jeff Cavins, (apologist and host of EWTN's Life on the Rock), is the true and bittersweet story of an emotional and spiritual search for peace in a chaotic world. Jeff was a rebel - and then he became a rebel for Jesus. This moving account...
by Joseph Mausbach
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Mausbachs Catholic Moral Teaching is a defense of Catholic morals in response to attacks by Protestants in Germany around the end of the 19th century. This expansive text includes a table of contents is included for easier navigation.
by Gerald O'Collins, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Many observers greeted the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) as the most important religious event in the twentieth century. Its implementation and impact are still being felt in the Catholic Church, the wider Christian world, and beyond. One sea change that Vatican II brought concerned Roman Catholic...
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
During his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI was called ‘the green pope’ because of his ecological commitments in his writings, statements, and practical initiatives. Containing twelve essays by lay, ordained, and religious Catholic theologians and scholars, along with a presentation and a homily by bishops,...
The Eucharist in the West
History and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
In the light of its own history, the Catholic theology of the Eucharist, as it is generally understood today, is revealed as a splinter tradition whose deficiencies call for fundamental reformulation. The valid aspects of that theology (for example, the recovery of the role of the Holy Spirit in the...
by Thomas Reese, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on the environment has captured the attention of millions of people all over the world. One of the most important documents of this century, the encyclical puts the Catholic Church firmly behind the environmental movement, calling the world to a conversion that will...
The Mystery of Predestination
According to Scripture, the Church and St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
How can an all loving God predestine some to eternal salvation while permitting others to fall away? Doesn't God offer the same amount of saving grace to everyone? Isn't predestination a Protestant doctrine? In The Mystery of Predestination, apologist and best-selling author John Salza (Why Catholic...
Word by Word
Slowing Down with the Hail Mary
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Most Catholics can recite the Hail Mary but haven’t actually reflected on the meaning of the prayer. Blogger and author Sarah Reinhard invited forty of the most popular Catholic voices, including Lisa M. Hendey, Lisa Mladinich, and Brandon Vogt, to write a brief reflection on one word of the Hail Mary....