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Pope Francis Among the Wolves
The Inside Story of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Marco Politi takes us deep inside the power struggle roiling the Roman Curia and the Catholic Church worldwide, beginning with Benedict XVI, the pope who famously resigned in 2013, and intensifying with the contested and unexpected election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, now...
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...
From the Pews in the Back
Young Women and Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
From the Pews in the Back is a book filled with questions about Catholic identity. How do young Catholic women see or define themselves? What is their relationship to the church? What are their struggles and joys? In a church that often consigns them to the pews in the back, what place are young women...
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...
by Archbishop Wynn Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
For those displeased with Roman Catholicism yet seeking a spiritual path that embraces and accepts, this straightforward, often humorous book will return you to a serenity you desire and deserve.
The Old Catholic Church is completely and validly Catholic without being Roman Catholic. The author explains how to stay true to your faith and belief regardless of your church affiliation.
by St. Jerome, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This edition of Against the Pelagians comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each book. St. Jerome (formerly Saint Hierom) was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon,...
An Anxious Age
The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of...
Reflections during Advent
Dorothy Day on Prayer, Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
In his September 2015 speech to the United States Congress, Pope Francis credited American journalist Dorothy Day (1897–1980), cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, for her deep faith and social activism. Day’s devotion to her Catholic faith and its traditions reverberated through a series...
Dorothy Day
Writings from Commonweal
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Dorothy Day has been described as "the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism." Outside The Catholic Worker (which she edited from 1933 to her death), Day wrote for no other publication so often and over such an extended period-covering...
A Tremor of Bliss
Sex, Catholicism, and Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Up to the current day, matters of sexual morality—including contraception, abortion, premarital sex, and gay marriage—have polarized the Catholic Church. In the wake of the turmoil of the 1960s, when liberal theologians challenged the Church’s traditional views on the subject, a schism...
When the Enlightenment Hit the Neighborhoods
The Waning of the Catholic Tradition - and Hope for Its Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Faith and reason are in a fight, and faith is losing.
Why has the traditional, authority-based way of doing faith collapsed? Only fifteen percent of young Catholics attend church regularly. If ex-Catholics were a religious denomination, they would be the third-largest in the U.S. The young,...
Unruly Catholics from Dante to Madonna
Faith, Heresy, and Politics in Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
During the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church went through a period of liberal reform under the stewardship of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. Successive popes sharply reversed course, enforcing conservative ideological values and silencing progressive voices in the Church. Consequently,...
Deep Down Things
Essays on Catholic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Deep Down Things: Essays on Catholic Culture explores common threads that characterize Catholicism. The contributors look successively at: Catholic culture and everyday life of the parish and of work, at Catholic culture and the imaginative life of poets and fiction writers, and at Catholic culture...
Catholic Christianity
Getting Started
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Explaining the basics of the Faith. What is the Catholic religion? How should it affect your everyday life? How does one pray? These are just some of the basic questions answered in this eBook. It offers enquirers of any faith or none a concise and accurate summary of Christian belief and the Catholic...