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by Penny Lord, Bob Lord
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Saint Edith Stein was a Convert to Catholicism from the Jewish Faith. She became a Carmelite Nun and was gassed to death at Auschwitz. Bob and Penny Lord traveled to Germany and Auschwitz to bring you this ebook about the life and death of Saint Edith Stein.
by Jim Chevallier
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Is bacon fat meat? Chicken? Cheese? Eggs? All of these have been considered, at different times, meat or meatless foods by the Catholic Church. The eighteenth century historian Le Grand d'Aussy included several long passages on the complex history of Catholic fasting in France in his master work on...
Can a Seamless Garment Be Truly Torn?
Questions Surrounding the Jewish-Catholic Löb Family, 1881–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The conversion of Lutz Löb and Jenny van Gelder from Judaism to Roman Catholicism dramatically changed the lives of the extended Löb family. This scientific-historical study traces the personal and spiritual journey of Lutz and Jenny from their baptisms in 1907 through the lives of their children....
by Rory Michael Fox
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
“Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the most Holy Rosary.”—St. Pope Pius IX . "Get you Saints on!" with the Saints On Series from E-Saint Library! Vol. I: Saints, Popes and Blesseds Speak on the Rosary. Rediscover Catholicism's...
Papist Patriots
The Making of an American Catholic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
"The persons in America who were the most opposed to Great Britain had also, in general, distinguished themselves by being particularly hostile to Catholics." So wrote the minister, teacher, and sometime-historian Jonathan Boucher from his home in Surrey, England, in 1797. He blamed "old...
Lessons in Hope
My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer describes what he learned from chronicling the life of Pope John Paul II
In Lessons in Hope, George Weigel tells the story of his unique friendship with St. John Paul II. As Weigel learns the pope "from inside," he...
by Pope John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
A great international bestseller, the book in which, on the eve of the millennium, Pope John Paul II brings to an accessible level the great theological concerns of our lives. He goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about the dignity of man;...
Pope Benedict XVI
His Life and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Includes a new foreword on the resignation and legacy of Pope Benedict XVI.
The sudden resignation of Pope Benedict XVI comes as the capstone to a papacy that that shocked some and delighted others. Pope Benedict was both an ardent intellectual and a driven traditionalist charged with leading...
Richard John Neuhaus
A Life in the Public Square
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
A brilliant biography of one of the intellectual mavericks of 20th Century Catholicism.
Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009) was one of the most influential figures in American public life from the Civil Rights era to the War on Terror. His writing, activism, and connections to people...
All the Pope's Men
The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A fascinating and enlightening look at the world’s oldest and most mysterious institution, written by an American journalist with unparalleled knowledge about the Vatican's past and present.
The sexual abuse scandals that shook American and British Catholicism in 2002 brought to light a long-standing...
Being Catholic Now
Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
For Kerry Kennedy, who grew up in a devoutly Catholic household coping with great loss, her family’s faith was a constant source of strength and solace. As an adult, she came to question some of the attitudes and teachings of the Catholic Church while remaining an impassioned believer in its role...
Particles of Faith
A Catholic Guide to Navigating Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
What is the origin of life? Hasn't the Catholic Church always been hostile to science? Can a Christian accept the scientific theory of evolution?How can you, as a Catholic, explain what the Church teaches about the relationship between science and faith? Scientist, writer, and scholar Stacy Trasancos...
The Catholic Church
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this extraordinary book, the renowned Hans Kung chronicles the Roman Catholic Church’s role as a world power throughout history. He examines great schisms — between East and West, Catholicism and Protestantism — the evolving role of the papacy and the stories of the great reforming popes;...
Soldier of Christ
The Life of Pope Pius XII
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Soldier of Christ reveals a paradoxical figure: a prophetic reformer of limited vision whose leadership stimulated the emergence of a global Catholicism while sowing doubt and dissension among some of the Church’s most faithful servants. The Cold War and Pius XII’s manner of engaging with the modern world defined his pontificate, Ventresca argues.