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God's Mirror
Renewal and Engagement in French Catholic Intellectual Culture in the Mid–Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God’s Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers and...
A Precious Fountain
Music in the Worship of an African American Catholic Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
A Precious Fountain is a work of liturgical ethnography that probes the rich liturgical life of one worshiping community whose roots and practices are at once Black and Catholic, using music as a primary lens through which to explore the community's liturgy and embodied theology. Our Lady of Lourdes...
Conscience and Calling
Ethical Reflections on Catholic Women's Church Vocations
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This volume probes the meaning and ethical implications of the powerful symbol of vocation from the vantage of contemporary Catholic women, with particular attention to the experiences of women religious. Intended as a follow-up to Liberating Conscience: Feminist Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology,...
by Gerald Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Gerald Murphy (1931 – 2015) led a catholic life in every sense of the word. The first son of a Irish policeman in the Met, he left school at 16 determined to pursue a career as an architect. Thrown out of a London Poly for failing his written exams, he found his way to the Architectural Association...
How to Catholic Family
Nurturing Faith in the Messiness of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
This book is a practical, encouraging guide for “the rest of us”: Catholic parents that want to impart the faith to their children but aren’t quite sure where to start. Topics include leading by example, having conversations about faith, reading the Bible as a family, learning about the Saints,...
by Sir Jeffery Abood
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Each day, the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, in her social service agencies, hospitals, schools and parishes, witnesses the human consequences of the ongoing troubles that plaque the land of Jesus' birth. They have gone on record as a way of sharing those experiences with the larger Church.
What...
Migration for Mission
International Catholic Sisters in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Patterns of migration for the purpose of religious mission are an unexamined dimension of the immigration narrative. Catholic sisters from many countries around the world come to the United States to minister and to study. Sociologists from Trinity Washington University and CARA at Georgetown University...
by William J. Slattery
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
The “Dictatorship of Relativism”, the dominant culture of the post-modern world with its ideological roots in the Cartesian, Protestant, and French revolutions, is ultimately a revolt against Truth. It argues that man is incapable of knowing reality as reality but merely as physical-mathematical...
Hispanic Ministry in Catholic Parishes
A Summary Report of Findings from the National Study of Catholic Parishes with Hispanic Ministry
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 29, 2015
"The Church is called to be the house of the Father, with doors always wide open." - Pope Francis, The Joy of the GospelIn this groundbreaking nationwide study of Hispanic ministries in U.S. parishes, Dr. Hosffman Ospino describes not only the reality of the Church in the United States today,...
El Credo
Un encuentro con la fe de la Iglesia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers Award: Spanish (Second Place).
Hosffman Ospino, a leading authority on Hispanic ministry in the United States, offers a short, accessible introduction to the Creed. Written in Spanish for Hispanic Catholics in the United States, El Credo explains...
Among the Ruins
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This critical review of the Roman Catholic Church since the pivotal changes initiated in the 1960s by Vatican II paints a disturbing picture of decline and corruption. Dr. Paul L. Williams, a self-professed Tridentine or traditionalist Catholic, traces the various factors that have caused the Church...
Katharine Drexel
The Riches-to-Rags Life Story of an American Catholic Saint
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
On October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Katharine Drexel (1858–1955) to be a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Only the second American-born Catholic saint in history, Drexel founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891 and established more than sixty Blessed Sacrament missions...
Mother Angelica
The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The extraordinary saga of Mother Angelica--who passed away on Easter, 2016--founder of the multimillion-dollar Eternal Word Television Network and “the most influential Catholic woman in America” according to Time magazine
In 1981, the year after Ted Turner founded...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin has established himself as one of America's most distinctively Catholic voices. We have also come to know Breslin as the cocky guy from Queens, New York, who speaks insolently to powerful people and institutions, his words always tinged with a healthy...