Catholicism category: 4667 books
Roman Catholic Worship
Trent to Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
A great deal has happened in Roman Catholic worship since Vatican II promulgated the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy on December 4, 1963. But the myth persists that very little happened in the four centuries between the end of the Council of Trent on December 4, 1563, and Vatican II. Roman Catholic...
The Lawyer of the Church
Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Mexico’s Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture.
The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican...
Truth and Relevance
Catholic Theology in French Quebec since the Quiet Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
After the Quiet Revolution, the Catholic church lost its stronghold in Quebec. Despite this decline, or perhaps because of it, contemporary Catholic thought in Quebec exhibits a bold creativity. In Truth and Relevance, Gregory Baum introduces, contextualizes, and interprets Catholic theological writing...
Fernand Dumont
A Sociologist Turns to Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Fernand Dumont (1927-1997) was a sociologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet. A prominent intellectual in Quebec, he is recognized for his research on the sociology of knowledge and the foundations of modern culture. Dumont's work conceives of culture in terms of both memory and distance, arguing...
American Law from a Catholic Perspective
Through a Clearer Lens
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Edited by Ronald J. Rychlak, American Law from a Catholic Perspective is one of the most comprehensive surveys of American legal topics by major Catholic legal scholars. Contributors explore bankruptcy, corporate law, environmental law, family law, immigration, labor law, military law, property, torts,...
Wounded Shepherd
Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Following his critically acclaimed The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh's colorful, clear-eyed portrait of Pope Francis takes us inside the Vatican's urgent debate over the future of the church in Wounded Shepherd.
This deeply contextual biography centers on the tensions generated by the pope’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Throughout its history the Catholic Church has taken positions on many subjects that are in one sense political, but in another sense are primarily moral, such as contraception, homosexuality, and divorce. One such issue, abortion, has split not only the United States, but Catholics as well. Catholics...
Cultures of Devotion
Folk Saints of Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
Spanish America has produced numerous "folk saints" -- venerated figures regarded as miraculous but not officially recognized by the Catholic Church. Some of these have huge national cults with hundreds -- perhaps millions -- of devotees. In this book Frank Graziano provides the first overview in...
Return to Rome
Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What does it mean to be evangelical? What does it mean to be Catholic? Can one consider oneself both simultaneously? Francis Beckwith has wrestled with these questions personally and professionally. He was baptized a Catholic, but his faith journey led him to Protestant evangelicalism. He became a...
Crossing Parish Boundaries
Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago’s mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, interracialism seemed stubbornly unattainable, and the national...
by Patricia Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
“Christian Healing” is a profound and thoughtful book filled with wonderful uplifting images that shows us how we can heal ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It gives an understanding of healing through the Sacraments of the Holy Catholic Church, healing from Jesus Our...
The Works of Mercy
The Heart of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The Works of Mercy introduces readers to the seven corporal and seven spiritual works of mercy, inviting readers to explore mercy in our everyday lives. James Keenan defines mercy as “the willingness to enter into the chaos of another,” and it is one of the central elements of the Christian faith....
The Valiant Woman
The Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Nineteenth-century America was rife with Protestant-fueled anti-Catholicism. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez reveals how Protestants nevertheless became surprisingly and deeply fascinated with the Virgin Mary, even as her role as a devotional figure who united Catholics grew. Documenting the vivid Marian...
For Both Cross and Flag
Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Against a backdrop of war and anti-Catholic sentiment, one man loses his rights because he is falsely accused
In this fascinating, detailed history, William Issel recounts the civil rights abuses suffered by Sylvester Andriano, an Italian American Catholic civil leader whose religious and political...