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Medical Ethics
Sources of Catholic Teachings, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
In a single convenient resource, this revised and updated edition of a classic text organizes and presents clearly the documents of the Catholic Church pertaining to medical ethics. Introductory chapters provide the context for interpreting the Church's teachings and theological values, guiding the reader...
by Janice Steinhagen and John Howland, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
In the book twelve Catholic doctors tell their own life stories with honesty, with wit, and with passion. In these intimate portraits we get a glimpse beneath the white coat into the heart of each physician. How have these physicians come to a profound faith? How have they kept their faith amidst the...
Where the Community Gathers
A Tour of Our Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A concise presentation of important aspects of the Catholic faith in easy, accessible language. The pamphlet begins with a walking tour of a Catholic church building. First, it examines various common symbols and objects found in our worship space. Then it introduces the reader to related topics like...
by Betty Gravlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Who Does God Want Me to Be? What is the Nature of Your Call to Service? How do I Grow in Holiness? This book gives some answers to those questions for those who are seeking a way to follow Christ more closely. It explains some Catholic spirituality that will help you along your journey.
by Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
As an award-winning author, host of EWTN's "Everyday Blessings for Catholic Moms," and mother of five, Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle is well aware of the difficulties women face today as they balance all their responsibilities and struggle to find time for prayer. She is currently filming a...
The Friendship Project
The Catholic Woman's Guide to Making and Keeping Fabulous, Faith-Filled Friends
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet are busy wives, mothers, and volunteers. They are also friends, Catholic speakers, and the dedicated coauthors of Divine Mercy for Moms, which continues to inspire women to come together to pray, study, and live in friendship around the Divine Mercy devotion. In the...
Closing Chapters
Urban Change, Religious Reform, and the Decline of Youngstown's Catholic Elementary Schools, 1960-2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through this examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity.
Those in Power
Without Inclusivity and Equity, the Catholic Institution Will Quickly Decline
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Many of us had lived an experience in the Roman Catholic Institution that we couldnt find words to articulateuntil society created language for the experience of abuse. Abuse was seen as doing something that would inspire fear, but it is a form of control that can be either aggressive or subtle.
The...
The Silent Schism
Healing the Serious Split in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Pope Francis has called upon Catholics to use what he calls “the grammar of simplicity” when talking with one another and with others outside the church. In this groundbreaking work, Brother Louis De Thomasis and Sr. Cynthia Nienhaus use the grammar of simplicity to describe the current schism happening...
The Smoke of Satan
How Corrupt and Cowardly Bishops Betrayed Christ, His Church, and the Faithful . . . and What Can Be Done About It
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2019
The sex-abuse scandal, which has erupted anew in 2018, poses the greatest challenge that the Catholic Church has faced since the Reformation. In The Smoke of Satan, veteran Catholic journalist Philip Lawler explains why the crisis is even more severe than when it first commanded headlines in 2002,...
The Priestly Blessing
Rediscovering the Gift
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
A bestselling author and leading expert on the Catholic priesthood, Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti forges a renewed theology of priestly blessing, encouraging his brother priests to embrace the habit of blessing people, objects, and events. In this provocative and inspirational book he shows how the blessing...
by Liana Eisenman-Wolford
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Are you looking for ideas for how to keep Christ in Christmas? Are you unsure how to share your faith with your littlest ones? Do you want practical suggestions for incorporating faith into daily life? Look no further!
Growing (Up) in Faith: A Guide for Catholic Parents of Young Children is...
New Generations of Catholic Sisters
The Challenge of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the generations of women who entered religious life in the United States after 1965. It provides up-to-date demographics for women's religious institutes; a summary of canon law locating religious life within the various forms of life in the Church;...
Unlikely Ways Home
Real-Life Spiritual Detours
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An engaging collection of twelve real-life stories that illuminate the ways God is present in everyday life
Edward L. Beck’s first book, God Underneath, was hailed as “a graceful and gracious work of self-revelation and spiritual wisdom” by the Los Angeles Times, and a review in the Dallas...