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by Michael Coren
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A practicing Catholic defends the faith and offers a passionate response to current anti-Catholic opinion.
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In Why Catholics Are Right, author, columnist, and practicing Catholic Michael Coren examines four main aspects of Catholicism as they are encountered, understood, and more importantly,...
Dynamic Catholicism
A Historical Catechism
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Formerly Essential Catholicism, this book has been retitled to reflect how, through the centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has evolved in many aspects of its teaching. The new title also reflects how theologians today grapple with ever new ways of understanding many facets of Catholic belief and...
The Rule of Benedict
Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
There was no neutral response to the announcement that the "enforcer"—Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger—had been elected Benedict XVI, the next pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Conservatives saw it as the final triumph of their agenda. Liberals were aghast. Everyone else wondered what to expect....
by Michael Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
From the most basic terms to the structures and practices of the Church, this book offers a plain-speaking introduction to Roman Catholicism. Now in a second edition, it contains new sections on relations with other faiths, coverage of recent controversies in the Church and an expanded section on...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
The Mystery of the Rosary
Marian Devotion and the Reinvention of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Ever since its appearance in Europe five centuries ago, the rosary has been a widespread, highly visible devotion among Roman Catholics. Its popularity has persisted despite centuries of often seismic social upheaval, cultural change, and institutional reform. In form, the rosary consists of a ritually...
Catholicism and Citizenship
Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
The beginning of the twenty-first century has provided abundant evidence of the necessity to reexamine the relationship between Catholicism and the modern, global world. This book tries to proceed on this path with a focus on the meaning, legacy, and reception in today’s world of the ecclesiology...
by John T. McGreevy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004
"[McGreevy] has written the best intellectual history of the Catholic Church in America."—Commonweal
For two centuries, Catholicism has played a profound and largely unexamined role in America's political and intellectual life. Emphasizing the communal over the individual, protections...
The Heart of Catholicism
Practicing the Everyday Habits That Shape Us
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In The Heart of Catholicism, Bert Ghezzi, bestselling author and popular speaker, invites readers into his deep love for the Church. With great warmth and authenticity, he shows how foundational habits such as praying, studying scripture, serving others, celebrating sacraments, and learning from the...
Catholicism and Historical Narrative
A Catholic Engagement with Historical Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Stories about the past shape not only the way people think about history, but also the way they act in the present. Nowhere is this truer than in the area of religion, which has been and continues to be a powerful motivating force in the lives of billions around the globe. In this volume, Catholicism...
by Sue Marquette Poremba
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
The Pope. The Holy Eucharist. The Blessed Virgin Mary. The Seven Sacraments. Catholicism is filled with great mysteries, so youíve probably been confused about this 2,000-year-old religion at one time or another. In 29 Things To Know About Catholicism, the Catholic Churchís beliefs are explored...
The Catholic Enlightenment
The Forgotten History of a Global Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
"Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion, as prevalent today as it was hundreds...
The Intellectual Crisis in English Catholicism
Liberal Catholics, Modernists, and the Vatican in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This volume, first published in 1982, examines the attempts of English liberal Catholics to reconcile their Church with secular culture and provides an account of the development of liberal Catholicism in England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work was written not only...
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...