Catholic category: 4805 books
Empirical Foundations of the Common Good
What Theology Can Learn from Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The idea of the common good was borrowed by the Fathers of the early Catholic Church from the rich philosophical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. It has been a fundamental part of Catholic thinking about social, political, and economic life throughout the Catholic intellectual tradition, from...
by Daniel Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Suggests certain distinctive characteristics of the Catholic experience of Christianity, with emphasis on how faith is lived and experienced within the Catholic tradition.
Theology at the Crossroads of University, Church and Society
Dialogue, Difference and Catholic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Lieven Boeve examines the place of theology in the university, the church and society. He emphasizes that theology certainly belongs to all of these three domains as it belongs to the nature of theology to involve itself in all three spheres, especially at the crossroads where they overlap.
Boeve...
A Catholic Gardener’s Spiritual Almanac
Cultivating Your Faith Throughout the Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
A Catholic Gardener’s Spiritual Almanac is the first book to offer gardeners spiritual resources and creative projects that connect a love of gardening with their Catholic faith. Margaret Realy, master gardener, retreat leader, and writer, presents this spiritual companion that follows the natural...
A Catholic Modernity?
Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture, with responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, and Jean Bethke Elshtain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
This book offers a series of reflections on the state of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, in the world today. The centerpiece of the volume is a lecture by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor, from which the title of the book is taken. The lecture, delivered at Dayton University in January...
Catholic Bishops in the United States
Church Leadership in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
In the past thirty years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have made headlines with their statements on nuclear disarmament and economic justice, their struggles to address sexual abuse by clergy, and their defense of refugees and immigrants. Despite many similarities, the nearly two hundred...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
*Includes historic artwork depicting St. Francis and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of ContentsA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors Catholic...
by James Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
A clear-eyed and personal examination of the Catholic faith, its leaders, and its complicated history by National Book Award–winner James Carroll
James Carroll turns to the notion of practice—both as a way to learn and a means of improvement—as a lens for this thoughtful and frank look...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003
An “intellectually satisfying, and spiritually moving,” argument for a questioning, conscience-driven faith, by a New York Times bestselling author (Booklist).
Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills has been asked more than once why he remains in the Church, especially in the wake of his bestselling...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
*Includes pictures of Padre Pio, his work and life. *Discusses the controversy over Padre Pio bearing the stigmata*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of ContentsA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest...
Render Unto Rome
The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
AN INVESTIGATION OF EPIC FINANCIAL INTRIGUE, RENDER UNTO ROME EXPOSES THE SECRECY AND DECEIT THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE VALUES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is...
The Third Miracle
An Ordinary Man, a Medical Mystery, and a Trial of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Part detective story and part courtroom drama—with a touch of the supernatural—The Third Miracle exposes, for the first time ever, the secret rituals and investigations the CatholicChurch today undertakes in order to determine sainthood.
On a raw January 2001 morning at a Catholic convent deep...
The Catholic Way
Faith for Living Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
In The Catholic Way, Bishop Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington D.C., has offered up an accessible, easy-to-use blueprint to the Catholic Church's most recent catechism, a detailed summary of Catholic thought compiled by a commission of church cardinals and bishops in 1992.
Catholic Bible
Red Letter Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This Red Letter Edition of the Catholic Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament with the words of Jesus Christ highlighted in red. This Douay-Rheims version is the authoritative Bible of the Catholic Church. It is a beautiful translation that brings to life the teachings of the church.