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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...
by Mike Aquilina, Christopher Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
We are believers in God, but we also struggle with doubts.The Apostle Thomas understood what it means to wrestle with doubt. But that's only the beginning of the story. After Jesus answered his skepticism, Thomas became one of the Church's most successful missionaries, evangelizing India despite...
by Mike Aquilina, Mark W. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Many of us give up on prayer when we don't get the answer we want WHEN we want it.
For nearly two decades, Saint Monica prayed for her wayward son. Years and years of prayers, seemingly unanswered. Countless tears shed with no relief. Yet she would not give up.
That very act of persistent...
by Michael Dubruiel
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Get the most out of the Mass...A Pocket Guide to the Mass walks you through the biblical basis of prayers, the meaning behind gestures, and a brief overview of the spirituality that brings Catholics together for Eucharist each week.Reenergize your time at Mass or help those who are new...
The Word of the Lord
7 Essential Principles for Catholic Scripture Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
"The joy born of the Word can now expand to all those who, by faith, let themselves be changed by God's word." – Pope Benedict XVI, Verbum Domini
For many Catholics, Scripture remains an elusive part of their Faith, or worse yet, a weapon used against them when encountering challenges...
Men of Brave Heart
The Virtue of Courage in the Priestly Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
What does it take to see man at his worst? To share the pain of suffering and death? To persevere a life of faith? It takes a courageous heart.Men of Brave Heart is a celebration of the priestly life--from the historical and Scriptural connections through the example of the saints before us. The...
by Susan Tassone
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Susan Tassone turns to a passionate and powerful guide to help us pray for the holy souls in purgatory, St. Faustina Kowalska. Includes devotions, prayers, novenas, and the wisdom of St. Faustina.
Saint Kateri
Lily of the Mohawks
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This authoritative account of the first Native American woman to be declared a saint by the Church is sure to inspire you. Discover an extraordinary young woman who was called by Pope Blessed John Paul II, God's "bountiful gift" to His Church and a "sweet, frail yet strong figure of a young woman...
by William May
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
"In this revision of his already classic text, William May shows us once again the wisdom of the Catholic Church's moral tradition in its application to contemporary bioethics. Illuminating and engaging -- and with the attention to nuance that marks all of May's writing." -- Edward J. Furton, M.A., Ph.D.,...
Strengthening Your Family
A Catholic Approach to Holiness at Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
How to Make Your Family Holy!Turn on any sitcom, news hour program, reality TV show, or shock jock on the radio and modern family life is usually the butt of every joke -- bumbling dads, overworked moms, sarcastic kids, shallow relationships, and misdirected priorities.Add in the real-life...
How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice
Civil Responses to Catholic Hot Button Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
It is about winning friends, not arguments. It is about shedding light, not heat. It's about reframing the argument so hearts can be opened and minds can be inspired. How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice is a new sort of apologetics. It is for those moments when you are thrust into the...
Choosing Joy
The Secret to Living a Fully Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
What is joy? Ask ten different people and you'll get ten different answers.Yet if you asked:a man who grew up fatherless and destitute in the slums of Atlantaa young widow who decided to bring a neglected garden back to life in spite of agonizing physical pain and a deeply wounded spiritor author...
The How-To Book of the Bible
Everything You Need to Know But No One Ever Taught You
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Perhaps you know very little about the Bible... or enough to realize there's so much more to discover! Maybe your previous attempts to read the Bible have not been fruitful, and you don't get much out of the readings at Mass.
The How-To Book of the Bible is your key to unlocking this treasure....
Pope Benedict XVI and the Sexual Abuse Crisis
Working for Redemption and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
"You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured." -- Pope Benedict XVIThe True StorySince 1985, the Catholic Church in the United States has been living in the shadow of the clerical sexual abuse crisis. In 2002, revelations in...