Catholicism category: 4667 books
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
From Galway to Cloyne and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope’s address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland’s most charismatic clerics, Bishop...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Catholics constitute the largest religious community in the United States. Yet most American Catholics have never known a time when their church was not embroiled in controversies over liturgy, religious authority, cultural change, and gender and sexuality. Today, these arguments are taking place...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book is volume two of a three-volume work, Christianity Under Stress, which focuses on the experiences of Christian churches in contemporary communist and socialist societies. In this volume a distinguished group of experts examines the changing relationship of the Catholic church to contemporary...
A People of Hope
Archbishop Timothy Dolan in Conversation with John L. Allen Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
One of the world's most respected religion journalists profiles New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan, one of the country's—and possibly the world’s—most important Catholic leaders through lengthy exclusive interviews.
Unique among the current leadership of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Dolan...
To Change the Church
Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A New York Times columnist and one of America’s leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis’s efforts to change the church he governs in a book that is “must reading for every Christian who cares about the fate of the West and the future of global Christianity” (Rod Dreher, author...
The Catholicism Answer Book
The 300 Most Frequently Asked Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
As religion continues to dominate the news, politics and society in general, more and more laypeople are looking for a reliable guide to understanding the beliefs and practices of each faith.
The Roman Catholic Church-the largest branch of Christianity-claims a total of over 1 billion baptized...
The Catholics
The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history – 'A first-class storyteller' The Times
Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy – which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law...
The Seeker's Catechism
The Basics of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
In this revised edition of the concise and readable introduction to the riches of the Catholic faith, renowned catechetical author Michael Pennock poses and then briefly answers 210 questions that are essential to understanding the basics of Catholicism. The Seeker's Catechism addresses such questions...
Mere Catholicism
What the Catholic Church Teaches and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
C. S. Lewis's masterpiece of Christian apologetics, Mere Christianity, was about Christianity in general, carefully refraining from teaching the doctrine of any particular denomination. Mere Catholicism explains specifically what Catholics believe and practice. Meant for both Catholics who want a...
Dangers to the Faith
Recognizing Catholicism's 21st-Century Opponents
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A storm has been brewing in society and its treatment, views, and activities toward the Catholic Faith. Some are subtle, others are more brazen -- New Age thought, questionable spirituality, "creedless" Christianity, relativism, scientific skepticism, the triumph of technology, and even the self-styled...
by Rev. Kenneth Brighenti, Rev. John Trigilio Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Get the quick facts on Catholicism
This is your casual, down-to-earth introduction for non-Catholics and reintroduction for Catholics. Whether you're a Catholic or not, you may be totally clueless or just unaware of some aspects of Catholic traditions, history, doctrine, worship, devotion,...
Catholic Borderlands
Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905-1935
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America. Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley proclaimed the Extension Society’s duty to be that of preventing American Protestant missionaries, public school teachers, and...
Treasure in Clay
The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Treasure in Clay provides a lifetime’s worth of wisdom from one of the most beloved and influential figures in twentieth-century Catholicism.
Completed shortly before his death in 1979, Treasure in Clay is the autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, the preeminent teacher, preacher, and pastor...
Communion of Immigrants
A History of Catholics in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Catholicism has grown from a suppressed and persecuted outsiders' religion in the American colonies to become the nation's single largest denomination. James Fisher surveys more than four centuries of Catholics' involvement in American history, starting his narrative with one of the first Spanish...