Catholic category: 4805 books
The Catholic Church and the World Religions
A Theological and Phenomenological Account
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
An introduction to the World's major religions from a Catholic Perspective.
Christian Footings
Creation, World Religions, Personalism, Revelation, and Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Christian Footings is an examination of presuppositions for Catholic thought, as well as an introduction to the most important Catholic thinkers of our time. The book begins with a grounding in the earth's movement toward higher consciousness and the pointers toward God in creation via the thought...
The Catholic Church & Science
Answering the Questions, Exposing the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Were the Middle Ages dark for science? Did the pope say Darwin was right? From the Big Bang to Galileo, from the origins of life on Earth to the existence of life on other planets, The Catholic Church and Science clears away the fog of falsehood and misunderstanding to reveal a faith whose doctrines...
From Altar-Throne to Table
The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church investigates what the celebrated scholar of liturgy Robert A. Taft, SJ, calls the greatest and most successful liturgical reform in Catholic history. Only a century ago, faithful, practicing Catholics received...
By What Authority?
Primer on Scripture, the Magisterium, and the Sense of the Faithful
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Authority is exercised in many ways and forms in the Catholic Church today. By What Authority? offers a helpful introduction to the forms of Church authority that are concerned with authentic Christian belief. Gaillardetz (Gă lăr dēē) explains what it means to say that the Bible is inspired, how...
Rebuilt
Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran present the compelling and inspiring story to how they brought their parish back to life.
Rebuilt:...
And GOD saw it all was very good
Catholic LGBT People in Europe Telling Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
“The stories of the LGBT Catholics in this book will make a difference in your life” assures Sister Jeannine Gramick in her prologue. Here you will find 34 personal stories divided into the six themes (Family; Is Catholicism home; A religious life?; A long journey; Significant events; Working...
by Tim Schoonard
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Put knowledge and experience in the hands of your parish with this FREE book! At last, a down to earth, short and sweet, “layman’s terms” guide to understanding the great responsibility entrusted to those who seek to acquire sacred furniture for God’s house! Inspired by the U.S. Bishop’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
While plenty of books discuss the interrelationship between faith and science, few explore the many facets of the subject as this book does. Confronting common misconceptions surrounding Catholic thought on various scientific developments, this collection of essays by leading scholars and educators...
by Paula M. Kane
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin. Four years later, Reilly entered the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Peekskill, New York, where, known...
The Prince
Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2020
David Marr’s explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.
In March this year, the nation’s most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric...
by Jim Hillman, John Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
With expanding Irish, Swiss, French, and German immigrant populations, the state of Indiana evolved from individual explorers, trappers, hunters, and traders into family-focused communities of farmers and craftsmen. Emerging from the former Indiana Territory, the state's early population was in need...
Singular Vision
The Founding of the Catholic Church Extension Society of Canada 1908 to 1915
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Catholic Church Extension Society of Canada, now called Catholic Missions in Canada, had its beginnings in 1908 during the settling of the Canadian West. Over a century later, the Society’s early history is explored in this dynamic narrative by renowned Church historian, Michael Power. Mining...
Resting on the Future
Catholic Theology for an Unfinished Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Science has now demonstrated without a doubt that we live in an "unfinished universe.†? Discoveries in geology, biology, cosmology and other fields of scientific inquiry have shown that the cosmos has a narrative character and that the story is far from over. The sense of a universe that is...