Catholicism category: 4667 books
by Patrick Madrid
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
"So why do Catholics ..."
..."Say Mary remained a virgin?"
..."Refuse to rely on Scripture alone?"
..."Teach papal infallibility?"
... "Worship saints and bow down to their graven images?"
... "Claim the wafer is really Jesus?"
And,...
Take Five
Meditations with John Henry Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
"Newman provides a model for so many different kinds of Catholics. He did what love required." -- Scott Hahn
John Henry Newman's journey to Catholicism is one of the greatest stories of the nineteenth-century Church. He relied on divine revelation, together with logical reasoning...
Masters of Preaching
More Poignant and Powerful Homilists in Church History
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Who were Catholicism’s greatest orators? What was the key to their effectiveness? Was it mere scholastic ability or spiritual inspiration? The answer is “both.” In this follow-up work, Father Ray E. Atwood examines the lives, theologies, and preaching examples of the Church’s greatest preachers....
Welcoming Flowers from across the Cleansed Threshold of Hope
An Answer to Pope John Paul II's Criticism of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Welcoming Flowers is a pointed critique of the Buddhism chapter of Pope John Paul II’s 1994 best seller, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, written by the highly respected Buddhist teacher Thinley Norbu. In responding to the false charges of Buddhists’ indifference to the world and rejection of reality,...
German Catholics and Hitler's Wars
A Study in Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1988
Prior to the outbreak of World War II, nearly forty thousand German Catholics were involved in the German Catholic Peace League, a movement that caused many people in various countries to seriously reconsider the dimension of pacifism in their faith. During the course of the War, however, many of...
The Journey to Rome
Conversion Literature by Nineteenth-Century American Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This title, first published in 1988, examines accounts of religious conversion contained in the personal narratives of nineteenth-century American coverts to Roman Catholicism. Given their newly acquired status as members of an unpopular religious minority, a number of converts recorded their conversion...
Toward a New Catholic Church
The Promise of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The National Book Award–winning author “seizes the moment of Catholicism’s sexual-abuse crisis” to call for a Vatican III (Publishers Weekly).
Elaborating on “A Call for Vatican III” from his New York Times–bestseller Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, James Carroll...
As We Await the Blessed Hope
A Catholic Study of the End Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
-Too many books are published today with too little rigor. This is a book that has been rigorously researched and written. In a world that often seems full of the shallow and superficial, it is deep and filled with important insights. It is not for everyone, but those that make the effort will be...
Faith and Leadership
The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This study is a comprehensive history of the papacy, the oldest elective office in the world, and how it has managed over the centuries the most complex voluntary association of faith. The book argues that in fact through most of its existence, the papacy has adapted managerial models of the secular...
by Louis Bouyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
A French convert to Catholicism in 1939, Louis Bouyer is a renowned theologian who was an influential presence at Vatican II. His classic work, Introduction to the Spiritual Life—first published in English in 1961 and now brought back into print—provides readers with an inspiring and comprehensive...
Where Is Knowing Going?
The Horizons of the Knowing Subject
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Catholic institutions of higher learning are at a crossroads: How can they remain true to their roots while recognizing that many of their administrations, faculties, and student bodies have little connection with the tradition? How can these institutions remain competitive while maintaining a relationship...
by Brian R. Calfano, Michele Dillon, Bernadette Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly during several political battles, and painfully aware...
by Ginger Infantino
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Everyone can teach the faithful about God's love, and Handbook for Today's Catechist examines basic principles for catechists and how parents are the first and most influential teachers of their children. This handbook helps provide answers and support for volunteer catechists, religion teachers, and...
Remembering the Reformation
Martin Luther and Catholic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther’s revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism. From the point of that rupture, up to and including most of the 20th century, the history of theological and ecclesial...