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Catholic Shrines in Chennai, India
The politics of renewal and apostolic legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Though proportionally small, India's Christians are a populous and significant minority. Focussing on various Roman Catholic churches and shrines located in Chennai, a large city in South India where activities concerning saintal revival and shrinal development have taken place in the recent past,...
The Shared Parish
Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
As
faith communities in the United States grow increasingly more diverse, many
churches are turning to the shared parish, a single church facility
shared by distinct cultural groups who retain their own worship and ministries.
The fastest growing and most common of these are Catholic parishes shared...
by John Henry (Cardinal) Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Venerable John Henry Newman, CO (21 February 1801 11 August 1890) was a Roman Catholic priest and Cardinal who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism in October 1845. In early life, he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to...
Newman and the Intellectual Tradition
Portsmouth Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Newman and the Intellectual Tradition highlights the proceedings of the 2010 Portsmouth Institute on Newman and the Intellectual Tradition. John Henry Newman was an Anglican priest for two decades in the 1800s, and was one of the founders of the Oxford Movement, which sought to reinvigorate the Church...
by John Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
What happened when, after a life-changing study-tour of Peru, a successful US attorney abandoned his law practice to volunteer with a religious organization and travel to Peru to fight for human rights in the midst of a culture of violence and terror?Not what he expected.In his sometimes...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
What does it mean to be—or to have been raised—Catholic in America today, now that formally nonpracticing Catholics outnumber the memberships of any other single denomination? Catholic Lives, Contemporary America is a collection of informed and spirited essays focusing on Catholic lay practices...
The Unhealed Wound
The Church, the Priesthood, and the Question of Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Kennedy, a psychologist, former priest, and a leading Catholic author and scholar, addresses one of the most compelling yet undiscussed issues in the Church: human sexuality. The Unhealed Wound is a penetrating and insightful study of the unresolved conflicts Catholics face regarding both their sexuality...
Polarization in the US Catholic Church
Naming the Wounds, Beginning to Heal
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
It is no secret: the body of Christ in the United States is broken. While universality—and unity amid diversity—is a fundamental characteristic of Roman Catholicism, all-too-familiar issues related to gender, sexuality, race, and authority have rent the church. Healthy debates, characteristic...
People of Faith
Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
In People of Faith, Mariza de Carvalho Soares reconstructs the everyday lives of Mina slaves transported in the eighteenth century to Rio de Janeiro from the western coast of Africa, particularly from modern-day Benin. She describes a Catholic lay brotherhood formed by the enslaved Mina congregants...
God's Mirror
Renewal and Engagement in French Catholic Intellectual Culture in the Mid–Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God’s Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers and...
Why Catholics Can't Sing
Revised and Updated With New Grand Conclusions and Good Advice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In this informative and entertaining critique of music in the Catholic Church, Thomas Day outlines a stinging indictment of the influence of popular culture on American Catholicism, particularly as expressed in church music. Taking aim at the Irish-American repertoire of songs that overwhelms Catholic...
by Brian Rees
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Over the course of five deployments to the Middle East since 9/11, Colonel (retired) Brian Rees documented his daily life at Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Kandahar, Camp Bucca and elsewhere, by writing emails to his friends and family:…they fired their warning shots, disabling (engine block) shots,...
by John Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958 examines the most momentous years in papal history. Popes Benedict XV (1914-1922), Pius XI (1922-1939), and Pius XII (1939-1958) faced the challenges of two world wars and the Cold War, and threats posed by totalitarian dictatorships like Italian...
Holy People, Holy Places
Foundations of Our Faith Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
From the author of the highly acclaimed and bestselling series 25 Questions for Young Catholics comes this three-volume guide to the fundamentals of Catholic life, teaching and practice. Surveying the central teachings of our faith, such as the sacraments, the life and ministry of the Church and the...