Catholicism category: 4667 books
by Penny Lord, Bob Lord
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The situation between the State and the Church had been going downhill for many years. To make matters worse, the Constitution of 1917 took away the Church’s official standing in Mexico. Priests were not allowed to wear clerical garb. Previously, all church property had been confiscated by the State....
The Church
The Evolution of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“The Church is a lucid, balanced, and readable book—a work of integration that is always reasonable, well informed, honest, and deeply hopeful.”
—Commonweal
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In The Church, renowned religious historian and Vatican expert Richard P. McBrien offers a sweeping history of the...
True Reform
Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
For Massimo Faggioli, the debate about the meaning of Vatican II too often misses the profound significance of that council's first and perhaps most consequential document, Sacrosanctum Concilium. The result is a misunderstanding of both the council as a whole and the liturgical reform that followed...
by Emily Michelson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region’s violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.
Choosing to Be Catholic
For the First Time or Once Again
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
First published in 2001, Choosing to Be Catholic has sold nearly 25,000 copies and maintains its status as a Catholic parish favorite. In this revised edition, Jesuit priest, master-teacher, and bestselling author William J. O’Malley, S.J., prompts seekers and skeptics alike to ask a new set of questions...
Arriving at Amen
Seven Catholic Prayers That Even I Can Offer
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In 2012, media outlets from CNN to EWTN announced that Leah Libresco, a gifted young intellectual, columnist, and prolific blogger on the Atheist channel on Patheos, was converting to Catholicism. In Arriving at Amen, Libresco uses the rigorous rationality that defined her Atheism to tell the story...
by Relaxed Venues
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
If it has been awhile since your last confession in a Catholic School or church -Take Me to Confession can be what you need.Setup in e-format this publication is designed to go with you, as you return to the confessional with far less trepidation. With your phone or e-reader you have access the steps...
The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America
From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism has been predominant in Latin America and it has played a definitive role in its development. It helped to spur the conquest of the New World with its emphasis on missions to the...
Tempest-Tossed Church
Being a Catholic Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In The Tempest-Tossed Church award-winning writer Gerard Windsor explores what it is to be a Catholic. Interlaced with twelve moving cameos, he entertains and stimulates with anecdote, history, forays into art and literature, and the occasional bit of gossip. Starting with how you get religion in...
Joined by Grace
A Catholic Prayer Book for Engaged and Newly Married Couples
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Joined by Grace introduces engaged and newly married couples to the rich traditions of Catholic prayer: how Catholics pray, texts of our most commonly used prayers, and a primer on devotions. A warm invitation to the faith and a simple approach to Catholicism, Joined by Grace is a book for beginners...
Freemasonry Mankind’s Hidden Enemy
With Current Official Catholic Statements
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Expanded edition! A short, incisive examination of Freemasonry, giving a brief, clear overview of the subject. Quotes Leo XIII's famous encyclical OnFreemasonry (1884) and proves that it is a significant danger to Catholicism today. Gives current official Catholic statements; intended to end confusion...
Fugitive Saints
Catholicism and the Politics of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a...
When the Magisterium Intervenes
The Magisterium and Theologians in Today's Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Catholicism has always recognized the need for a normative doctrinal teaching authority. Yet the character, scope, and exercise of that authority, what has come to be called the magisterium, has changed significantly over two millennia. This book gathers contributions from leading Catholic scholars...
Many Faces, One Church
Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2004
Many Faces, One Church: Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience both captures and facilitates a seismic shift in the who, what, where, when, why, and how of Catholic theology today. Along with a diverse group of theologians who represent the many faces of the church, editors Peter...