Catholicism category: 4667 books
Strangers in a Strange Land
Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A vivid critique of American life today and a guide to how Christians—and particularly Catholics--can live their faith vigorously, and even with hope, in a post-Christian public square.
From Charles J. Chaput, author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar comes Strangers in a...
by Paula M. Kane
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin. Four years later, Reilly entered the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Peekskill, New York, where, known...
by John Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
In 1540, Francisco Coronado led a band of soldiers, treasure-seekers, and Franciscan priests and friars into New Mexico, changing the lives of the Native Americans forever. In 1680, less than 100 years after the first Spanish colony imposed disease, serfdom, and zealous religious oversight on the indigenous...
Everyone Leads
How to Revitalize the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Drawing on decades of leadership experience, bestselling author Chris Lowney examines the profound challenges facing the global Catholic Church, shares real-life stories of Catholics making a difference, and offers practical suggestions for change.
The Catholic Church is suffering its worst...
Tejano Religion and Ethnicity
San Antonio, 1821-1860
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
While the flags of Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the United States successively flew over San Antonio, its Tejano community (Texans of Spanish or Mexican descent) formed a distinct ethnic identity that persisted despite rapid social and cultural changes. In this pioneering study, Timothy...
Top Down to Jesus, Book 1: a Scientist's Faith
Top Down to Jesus, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
The Title, “Top-down to Jesus”, paraphrases what one of my o heroes, Pope St. John Paul II, wrote: “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so...
by Hilaire Belloc
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 1992
Here the great Belloc shows that ever since the disaster of the Protestant Reformation, Western civilization (which was formed by the Catholic Faith) has been coming apart--since Calvinism opened the door to usury, unbridled competition, the domination of the mind by money, and ultimately the return...
The Last Years of Saint Thérèse
Doubt and Darkness, 1895-1897
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
For over a century, the Carmelite Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873-1897) has been revered as Catholicism's foremost folk saint of modern times. Universally known as "the Little Flower," she has been a source of consolation and uplift, an example of everyday sainthood by...
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...
Unleashed
How to Receive Everything the Holy Spirit Wants to Give You
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Sonja Corbitt was an evangelical Baptist before she converted to Catholicism. In Unleashed, she shares her passion for the scriptures by weaving the Word of God with her own experiences to show readers how the Holy Spirit flows through their lives in relationships, prayer, and even in times of suffering.
Sonja...
Theologies of Guadalupe
From the Era of Conquest to Pope Francis
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Every Spanish-speaking country in Latin America and the Caribbean has its own national representation of the Virgin Mary who is credited with helping to spread Christianity. None of these is more prominent than the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of Mexico. According to tradition, the Virgin appeared...
Catherine Spalding, SCN
A Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
At the age of nineteen, Catherine Spalding (1793--1858) ventured into what would become a lifetime of leadership with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN) -- one of the most significant American religious communities for women. As a cofounder and first superior of the order, she dedicated her...
by Charles Chiniquy
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
This vintage book contains Charles Chiniquy’s 1884 autobiography, “Fifty Years In The Church Of Rome”. Charles P. Chiniquy (1809 – 1899) was a Canadian Catholic priest who converted to Presbyterianism. This eye-opening account of Chiniquy’s time spent as a priest in the Catholic Church is...
The Difference God Makes
A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Penned by the leading intellectual in the American Catholic hierarchy, this debut brings together some of the most influential writings on the Catholic vision-not just the Church itself but of the relation and unity of all people. Weaving together intellectual insight and personal wisdom, this investigation...