Catholic category: 4805 books
Catholic Higher Education
A Culture in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Catholic higher education in the United States is undergoing dramatic changes, driven largely by the virtual disappearance of nuns, brothers, and priests from Catholic university campuses. Today Catholic colleges and universities are dealing with critical questions about what constitutes Catholic...
The Catholic Hipster Handbook
Rediscovering Cool Saints, Forgotten Prayers, and Other Weird but Sacred Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Winner of a 2019 Catholic Press Association Award: Backlist Beauty (First Place).
Being a Catholic Hipster is all about an attitude—an attitude grounded in being part of a countercultural community of believers dedicated to something bigger than themselves in a world dominated by self-centeredness....
by Michael Leach
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Why Stay Catholic? by Michael Leach is an uplifting book about what's right in the Catholic Church today and why tomorrow offers such hope and promise. Scandals in the Catholic Church won't go away. The uninspiring sermons keep coming and lay people who don't feel fulfilled find themselves...
by Ugo Nweke
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
It is the responsibility of every confirmed Catholic to share their faith with others, and to invite them to the values and life of the Gospel. People will not understand or believe unless there are people to teach them the Gospel as well as our Catholic faith by words and deeds (Romans 10:13-15)....
Catholic Charities USA
100 Years at the Intersection of Charity and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In honor of Catholic Charities USA's centennial celebration, this masterful work explores the development of Catholic Charities in the United States over the last one hundred years.
Featuring contributions by renowned Catholic scholars and respected leaders in the Catholic Charities movement,...
Catholic and Feminist
The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In 1963, as Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique appeared and civil rights activists marched on Washington, a separate but related social movement emerged among American Catholics, says Mary Henold. Thousands of Catholic feminists--both lay women and women religious--marched, strategized, theologized,...
by The Catholic Digital News
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
The Catholic Digital News gathers the week's most important news stories involving the Catholic Church and publishes them within a single digital volume. Each edition is beautifully formatted with full-color images and features world, national, and Vatican news, plus opinion pieces, entertainment...
A Pilgrim's Guide to the Old Catholic Church
100% Catholic. 0% Roman Catholic.
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
SECOND EDITION
100% Catholic. 0% Roman Catholic.
The OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH has been around for hundreds of years, but few people today know about it. Larger groups that use the word “Catholic” rarely like to admit its existence, but it does exist. It is...
Catholic Schools in the Public Interest
Past, Present, and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is a study of the contributions of Catholic K12 schools in the United States to the public interest from the 1800’s to the present. It presents seven strategies that have the possibility of leading Catholic schools in positive, new directions. Outsiders often misunderstand the mission,...
by John Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
You are called to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is not an option if we want to be a Christian! It’s a command of love from God and is an invitation to share in His divine life. We should hear those words and soak them up desiring to fulfill...
I Like Being Catholic
Treasured Traditions, Rituals, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A celebration of the treasured traditions, rituals, and stories that run through the bloodstream of American Catholics
For Andrew Greeley, it is the reverence of Christmas night and the exultation of Easter morn. Martin Scorsese, like many others, remains grateful for the nuns who rapped his...
by John Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
We are all called to be saints! This is what we are made for and this is the only way to happiness. Life in Christ, a life lived according to the will of God, is the only way to live out our dignity and to experience the freedom we so long for. This book helps to shed light on the glorious calling...
American Law from a Catholic Perspective
Through a Clearer Lens
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Edited by Ronald J. Rychlak, American Law from a Catholic Perspective is one of the most comprehensive surveys of American legal topics by major Catholic legal scholars. Contributors explore bankruptcy, corporate law, environmental law, family law, immigration, labor law, military law, property, torts,...
Gravissimum Educationis
Golden Opportunities in American Catholic Education 50 Years after Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Gravissimus Educationis: Golden Opportunities in American Catholic Education 50 Years after Vatican II reviews the development of American Catholic schools since the promulgation of Gravissimus Educationis, the only document on education produced by the Ecumenical Council known as Vatican II. This...