Catholic category: 4805 books
Ultimate Catholic Trivia
1001 Fun and Fascinating Facts
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2009
Ultimate Catholic Trivia reveals 1001 fun facts and tantalizing trivia that are sure to entertain, educate, and surprise. Along with little known trivia that will bring history to life, this one-of-a-kind extravaganza of curiosities on all things Catholic will prove fascinating for Catholics and a...
Catholicism: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
Teach Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CATHOLICISM, ALL IN ONE PLACE
This is your go-to guide to the Catholic faith. It covers the basics and history of Catholicism, the Catholic Church today and teachings and traditions. It is your comprehensive and essential account of Catholic doctrine, faith and history.
On...
by Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
A seminal moment in the study of U.S. Catholic parish life came in the 1980s with the publication of a series of reports from the ground-breaking Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life. These reports are now badly outdated, as Catholic dioceses grapple with new challenges that didn't exist in the...
by The Ironic Catholic
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
In the style of The Onion, Stephen Colbert, and occasionally Jonathan Swift, the writer of "The Ironic Catholic" website offers mild satirical takes on the world of Catholic news, focusing on the rich vein of human foibles in living the life of faith. The fake news stories (Attendees of...
Good Catholic Girls
How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The widely exposed transgressions of priests within the Catholic Church stunned the faithful and sent a new surge of energy through the progressive church reform movement in the United States. Despite the movement's growing profile, the world has only recently learned that Catholic women are the driving...
American Catholic
The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
"A cracking good story with a wonderful cast of rogues, ruffians and some remarkably holy and sensible people." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Before the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 1840s, the Roman Catholic Church was barely a thread in the American cloth. Twenty...
National Catholic Reporter at Fifty
The Story of the Pioneering Paper and Its Editors
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
National Catholic Reporter at Fifty tells the story of the award-winning Catholic paper the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) in the lead-up to NCR’s 50th anniversary in October 2014. Founded during the Second Vatican Council, NCR has been a powerful progressive voice in the Catholic Church and has...
by The Catholic Digital News
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 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...
Evangelical Catholicism
Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its two-thousand year history. As the curtain comes down on the Church defined by the 16th-century Counter-Reformation, the curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium: a way of being Catholic that comes from...
by The Catholic Digital News
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
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...
Bad Catholic's Guide to the Catechism
A Faithful, Fun-Loving Look at Catholic Dogmas, Doctrines, and Schmoctrines
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Masquerading behind the guise of the old-fashioned Catechism that generations of Catholic school kids in plaid skirts or clip-on ties had to memorize, this candid handbook provides a witty take on the teachings of the Catholic faith. Objections from relativist, New Atheist, dissenting Catholic, and...
by Kevin E. McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Topics related to Catholic social teaching emerge regularly in American political and civic discourse, often connected to discussions about religious freedom, abortion, immigrant rights, racism, capital punishment, and health care. This third edition of A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching...
It Is Good for Us to Be Here
Catholic Religious Institutes as Ngos at the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This book, It Is Good for Us to Be Here, epitomizes the unique advocacy work of organized transnational actors underscoring the nexus between faith life and working for social development. NGOs of institutes of religious life have been the most influential faith-based NGOs at the United Nations. They...
Annulments And the Catholic Church
Straight Answers to Tough Questions
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Few topics in the Catholic Church are more misunderstood than annulments. In Annulments & the Catholic Church, canon and civil lawyer Edward N. Peters answers common questions on annulments including:
● How is an annulment different from a divorce? ● Are there too many annulments granted...