Catholic category: 4805 books
Faith with Benefits
Hookup Culture on Catholic Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Hookup culture has become widespread on college campuses, and Catholic colleges are no exception. Indeed, despite the fact that most students on Catholic campuses report being unhappy with casual sexual encounters, most studies have found no difference between Catholic colleges and their secular counterparts...
The Handbook for Catholic Moms
Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
The Handbook for Catholic Moms, Lisa M. Hendey’s eminently practical and award-winning resource, has helped new parents balance and integrate the deeply personal needs of their hearts, minds, bodies, and souls with the demands of family life and faith commitment.
Since the first edition was...
Breaking Through
Catholic Women Speak for Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Catholic women are some of the most maligned, most caricatured, and most intriguing people in American society.
America is flirting with the idea that being a Catholic female means saying "yes" to the faith as a private source of comfort, but "no" to living out its more...
Positively Catholic
25 Really Good Reasons to Love the Faith, Live the Faith, and Share the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
What's so great about being Catholic?If you posed this question to the average Catholic, there’s a good chance they’d look a little puzzled and confess, “I don’t know. I’ve never really thought about it.”
Well, national best-selling author Michael Leach has thought about it—a...
by Deirdre M. Moloney
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Tracing the development of social reform movements among American Catholics from 1880 to 1925, Deirdre Moloney reveals how Catholic gender ideologies, emerging middle-class values, and ethnic identities shaped the goals and activities of lay activists.
Rather than simply appropriate American...
by John D. Early
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"A landmark achievement that will no doubt be cited again and again for years to come. It is a thoroughly-researched and authoritative work."--Allen J. Christenson, author of Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community "While this book explains what brought about the Maya uprisings...
The American Catholic Almanac
A Daily Reader of Patriots, Saints, Rogues, and Ordinary People Who Changed the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
WHAT DO BUFFALO BILL, JOHN F. KENNEDY, VINCE LOMBARDI, DOROTHY DAY, FULTON SHEEN, AND ANDY WARHOL HAVE IN COMMON?
They’re all Catholics who have shaped America. In this page-a-day history, 365 inspiring stories celebrate the historic contributions of American men and women shaped by their...
The Catholic Enlightenment
The Forgotten History of a Global Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
"Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion, as prevalent today as it was hundreds...
Where Is Knowing Going?
The Horizons of the Knowing Subject
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Catholic institutions of higher learning are at a crossroads: How can they remain true to their roots while recognizing that many of their administrations, faculties, and student bodies have little connection with the tradition? How can these institutions remain competitive while maintaining a relationship...
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation
Saints Who Renewed the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The Protestant Reformation began five hundred years ago, accompanied by an age of turmoil and secularism we can recognize even in our own time. Rather than shrinking from the crisis, the Catholic Church responded with even deeper, and more genuine, reform. We can do the same today.This Catholic...
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching
Contemporary Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific...
by Jay P. Corrin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In Catholic Progressives in England after Vatican II, Jay P. Corrin traces the evolution of Catholic social and theological thought from the end of World War II through the 1960s that culminated in Vatican Council II. He focuses on the emergence of reformist thinking as represented by the Council...
In the Lógos of Love
Promise and Predicament in Catholic Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
So much has changed about Catholic intellectual life in the half century since the end of the Second Vatican Council that it has become difficult to locate the core concepts that make up the tradition. In the Lógos of Love is a collection of essays that grew out of a 2013 conference on Catholic intellectual...
Becoming Catholic
Finding Rome in the American Religious Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Conversion has been an essential element of Christianity, and especially of Roman Catholicism, for centuries--from the Apostle Paul's dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus to the spiritual transformations of such prominent modern individuals as Cardinal Newman, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Thomas...