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The Heart of Catholic Prayer
Rediscovering the Our Father and the Hail Mary
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
To learn and understand the Our Father and Hail Mary is to learn the deepest contours of the Church's interior life, for both are prayers that come from the Holy Spirit, who is the soul of the Church. At once meditative and catechetical, The Heart of Catholic Prayer dissects the two anchors of our...
German Catholics and Hitler's Wars
A Study in Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1988
Prior to the outbreak of World War II, nearly forty thousand German Catholics were involved in the German Catholic Peace League, a movement that caused many people in various countries to seriously reconsider the dimension of pacifism in their faith. During the course of the War, however, many of...
Saint Kateri
Lily of the Mohawks
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This authoritative account of the first Native American woman to be declared a saint by the Church is sure to inspire you. Discover an extraordinary young woman who was called by Pope Blessed John Paul II, God's "bountiful gift" to His Church and a "sweet, frail yet strong figure of a young woman...
Alexander Pope’s Catholic Vision
“Slave to No Sect”
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England, this highly readable book focuses on Pope's religious thinking and major poems. G. Douglas Atkins extends the argument that the Roman Catholic poet was no Deist, 'closet' or otherwise.
by Brendan Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Brendan Roberts explores the five major Crusades and gives a no-holds barred depiction of the evil perpetrated by every side in the battles. Then he explores how we reflect the nature of God, through morality and our human sexuality.Think of this book as Pope Francis meets Osama bin Laden....
by Douglas Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1994
On March 14, 1948, Douglas Hyde handed in his resignation as the news editor of the London Daily Worker and wrote "the end" to twenty years of his life as a member of the Communist Party. A week later, in a written statement, Hyde announced that he had renounced Communism and, with his wife...
Faith and Leadership
The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This study is a comprehensive history of the papacy, the oldest elective office in the world, and how it has managed over the centuries the most complex voluntary association of faith. The book argues that in fact through most of its existence, the papacy has adapted managerial models of the secular...
Piety and Politics
Catholic Revival and the Generation of 1905-1914 in France
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
In this book, first published in 1984, Paul Cohen examines the Catholic revival among the young French intelligentsia prior to the First World War. He explores this intellectual revival by studying that period’s "talas", the Catholic students at the elite Ecole Normale Supérieure, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
A Commentary on the Order of Mass of The Roman Missal gathers the insights of some of today's foremost English-speaking liturgical scholars to aid in understanding this most recent edition of the Order of Mass and its new English translation. Developed under the auspices of the Catholic Academy of...
Bored Again Catholic
How the Mass Could Save Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Are you BORED? Not likely, given the endless opportunities today to see, share, post, watch, and like. So are you bored? No way! (Except maybe at Mass.) We want the Mass to entertain, make us laugh, give us foot tapping music and sound-bite theology, and get it done in under an hour....
From Blessing to Blessing
The Catechism as a Journey of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
For the majority of Catholics, reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church can be an intimidating experience. Few would consider using it as a devotional help or even as a practical guidebook to their Catholic faith. But, with the right tools, the Catechism can be easily navigated...
by Kathy Coffey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Anointed and Sealed with the Spirit is a confirmation program for Catholic parishes. This book is a practical guide to prepare for Catholic confirmation of candidates ages 7 to adult. Rather than providing “everything you need to know about being Catholic,” it gives candidates the preparation...
A Church with Open Doors
Catholic Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Catholic ecclesiology stands at the threshold of a new moment in the reception of the Second Vatican Council. The election of Pope Francis—coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the council—has inspired a fresh consideration of its teaching in such diverse areas as ecumenism, inculturation,...
How to Do Apologetics
Making the Case for Our Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
From one of the most respected names in Catholic Apologetics, Patrick Madrid, comes the new book How to Do Apologetics: Making the Case for Our Faith. And it couldn’t be more timely. Seismic cultural shifts and increased attacks on religious liberty often place Christians in the uncomfortable position...