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by Petroc Willey
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Essential pocket guide on how to read and understand the Catechism of the Catholic Church, its purpose, and use in supporting and teaching the faith. Written by an expert on catechesis, and designed for reading alone or as part of a group, this practical handbook will open up this most important and...
Let It Shine!
The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over...
Latino Catholicism (Abridged version)
Transformation in America's Largest Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In this abridged version made available in both English and Spanish, renowned author and Notre Dame scholar Timothy Matovina provides a comprehensive overview of the Latino Catholic experience in America from the 16th century to today and offers the most in-depth examination to date of the significant...
by Fr Francis Selman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
A brief but comprehensive overview of twenty-five of the most important elements of the Catholic Faith which can be studied day by day. Topics include the Trinity, Creation and the Fall, our redemption, the resurrection, Prayer and many others which are explained in an engaging style that will help the reader to open their hearts and minds to the vastness and beauty of the Catholic Faith.
The Crisis of Religious Liberty
Reflections from Law, History, and Catholic Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
In *The Crisis of Religious Liberty:*Reflections from Law, History, and Catholic Social Thought, contributors consider a series of significant challenges to the freedom of religious conscience and expression in the United States today. Such challenges include the mandate from the U.S. Department of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
While admitting particular parameters and priorities for Roman Catholic preachers, this volume was intentionally envisioned as a handbook for "catholic" preaching in the broadest and most universal sense of that term. Cosponsored by the Catholic Academy of Liturgy, the Catholic Association...
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...
Catholic Literature and Film
Incarnational Love and Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Catholic Literature and Film: Incarnational Love and Suffering is meant to be considered as a work of literary criticism, not film adaptation studies. In it, the author explores six literary works dealing with Catholic themes and the film versions of these works. The discussion of the films is at...
The Irony of Modern Catholic History
How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals
Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph...
by John Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The "Catholic Daily Reflections Series" was written to help you enter more deeply into the Holy Scriptures and the Catholic Liturgy on a daily basis. Through these reflections and prayers you are invited to enter the Word of God in a personal, engaging, challenging and transforming way.
These...
by Andrew M. Greeley
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
What might one expect to learn from a probability sample study of the Archdiocese of Chicago? Can one form a national portrait of Catholics in the United States from data about Chicago? Certainly, Chicago is unique in its judgments about its clergy. As the eminent Catholic sociologist Andrew M. Greeley...
The Catholic Advantage
Why Health, Happiness, and Heaven Await the Faithful
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The controversial president of The Catholic League shows how the Church may be the best guide for achieving long-term health and happiness.
Religious Americans are by far the healthiest and happiest of any segment of the population—this is true across religions according to recent Gallup...
The Church Confronts Modernity
Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
As the twentieth century opened, American intellectuals grew increasingly sympathetic to Pragmatism and empirical methods in the social sciences. The Progressive program as a whole—in the form of Pragmatism, education, modern sociology, and nationalism—seemed to be in agreement on one thing: everything...
Holocaust and Catholic Conscience, The
Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1994
American-born Cardinal Aloisius Muench (1889-1962) was a key figure in German and German-American Catholic responses to the Holocaust, Jews, and Judaism between 1946 and 1959. He was arguably the most powerful American Catholic figure and an influential Vatican representative in occupied Germany and...