Ave Maria Press: 253 books
by Mike Aquilina, Grace Aquilina
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
**Winner of two Catholic Press Association Awards: Design and Production (Second Place) and History (Honorable Mention).
The star of Bethlehem exemplifies the birth of Jesus, the Wittenberg Door is synonymous with the Protestant Reformation, and “the pill” symbolizes the sexual revolution....
Mortal Blessings
A Sacramental Farewell
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Family Life Category (First Place) In this lyrical adieu to her mother, renowned Catholic essayist, poet, and professor Angela O'Donnell explores how the mundane tasks of caregiving during her mother's final days--bathing, feeding, taking her for a walk in her wheelchair--became...
Lift Up Your Heart
A 10-Day Personal Retreat with St. Francis de Sales
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: First-Time Author, Spirituality Softcover (First Place) and a 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers Award: Inspirational (Second Place).
For more than four-hundred years, Introduction to the Devout Life by Doctor of the Church St. Francis...
The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments
A Catholic Journey through Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Sacraments. (Second Place).
In the first book to directly integrate the Twelve Steps with the practice of Catholicism, Scott Weeman, founder and director of Catholic in Recovery, pairs his personal story with compassionate straight talk to...
Gay and Catholic
Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Gender Issues Category (First Place).
In this first book from an openly lesbian and celibate Catholic, widely published writer and blogger Eve Tushnet recounts her spiritual and intellectual journey from liberal atheism to faithful Catholicism and shows...
To Heal, Proclaim, and Teach
The Essential Guide to Ministry in Today's Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Popular author, catechist, and creator of The Religion Teacher website Jared Dees learned a valuable lesson from his students: teaching is not the same as evangelization. He found instead—as in Jesus’ own ministry—if you focus first on healing the wounded, then proclaiming the Word of God, and...
Chastity Is for Lovers
Single, Happy, and (Still) a Virgin
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Books for Teens and Young Adults (First Place).
In 2012, journalist Arleen Spenceley outed herself as a twenty-six-year-old virgin in a Tampa Bay Times op-ed that went viral. In Chastity Is for Lovers, Spenceley expands on that piece, advocating Catholic...
Be Transformed
The Healing Power of the Sacraments
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
**Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Sacraments. (First Place).
How can Christians grow spiritually in the midst of our sinfulness? How can we transform our lives in a way that allows us to share in the resurrection of Jesus?**
God has already given us the perfect solution—the...
by Brandon Vogt
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Popular Presentation of the Catholic Faith. (First Place).
With atheism on the rise and millions tossing off religion, why would anyone consider the Catholic Church? Brandon Vogt, a bestselling author and the content director for Bishop Robert...
Redeeming Conflict
12 Habits for Christian Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
It seems counterintuitive: conflict can be a blessing. But Catholic theologian and conflict mediator Ann M. Garrido identifies conflict as a potentially fruitful exchange that arises from living and working together in the diverse world God created. Garrido, author of the bestselling Redeeming Administration,...
The Catholic Hipster Handbook
Rediscovering Cool Saints, Forgotten Prayers, and Other Weird but Sacred Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Winner of a 2019 Catholic Press Association Award: Backlist Beauty (First Place).
Being a Catholic Hipster is all about an attitude—an attitude grounded in being part of a countercultural community of believers dedicated to something bigger than themselves in a world dominated by self-centeredness....
One Ordinary Sunday
A Meditation on the Mystery of the Mass
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award: General Interest Books (First Place) and the Catholic Press Association Book Award: Popular Presentation of the Catholic Faith (First Place). In One Ordinary Sunday the popular, award-winning writer Paula Huston draws...
Intimate Graces
How Practicing the Works of Mercy Brings Out the Best in Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Winner of a Catholic Press Association Award: Family Life Books (First Place).
In Intimate Graces, bestselling author and Catholic media personality Teresa Tomeo and her husband, Dominick Pastore, invite couples to enrich their marriages by practicing the fourteen Spiritual and Corporal Works...
The Way of Catechesis
Exploring Our History, Renewing Our Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Winner of a 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers Award: Resources for Ministry (First Place) and a Catholic Press Association Award: Pastoral Ministry (Second Place).
Drawing on more than forty years of experience as a catechist, parish DRE, textbook publisher, and founding director of the...