Catholicism category: 4667 books
The Political Pope
How Pope Francis Is Delighting the Liberal Left and Abandoning Conservatives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The untold story of the left's efforts to politicize the Vatican and the battle to stop it-before the Catholic Church as we know it is destroyed.
Pope Francis is the most liberal pope in the history of the Catholic Church. He is not only championing the causes of the global Left, but also undermining...
The Global Vatican
An Inside Look at the Catholic Church, World Politics, and the Extraordinary Relationship between the United States and the Holy See, with a New Afterword on Pope Francis
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
From the centuries-long prejudices against Catholics in America, to the efforts of Fascism, Communism and modern terrorist organizations to “break the cross and spill the wine,” this book brings to life the Catholic Church’s role in world history, particularly in the realm of diplomacy. Former...
by John Cornwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
John Cornwell evokes a vanished time and way of life in this moving and, at times, troubling memoir of an adolescence spent in the isolated all-male world of the seminary.
Born into a destitute family with a dominating Irish-Catholic mother and an absconding father during World War II in London,...
Unveiled
The Hidden Lives of Nuns
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Surprising. Provocative. Honest.
For Unveiled, reporter Cheryl Reed interviewed more than 300 nuns of diverse beliefs, lifestyles, and orders. She lived and prayed with them, witnessed their vows, mourned and celebrated with them, and asked questions no one had ever dared before: about love...
by David F. Pierre Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
We must continue to demand justice and compassion for victims of Catholic clergy abuse. This is not optional.Time and time again in recent years, Catholics and non-Catholics alike have been horrified by hideous stories of wretched abuse and betrayal.However, there is a side of the Catholic Church abuse...
Vows of Silence
The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
Going deep behind the headlines about scandals in the Catholic Church, Jason Berry and Gerald Renner's Vows of Silence follows the staggering trail of evasions and deceit that leads directly to the Vatican -- and taints the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Based on more than six years of investigative...
by Thomas K. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
In One Happy Old Priest, Father Thomas Sullivan looks back on his eighty years as a catholic, a life that includes both family and scores of fine seminarians, priests, nuns, and parishioners. With an honest and rollicking writing style, Father Sullivan recreates moments that stand out in his childhood,...
Habits of Change
An Oral History of American Nuns
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than forty different religious communities, most of whom entered religious...
by Thomas Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Retired FBI agent Tom Walsh grows almonds in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California. He reads in the paper of disturbing sexual corruption within the Fresno Diocese. Badly shaken, he writes the Bishop for guidance...and is rebuked for his curiositiy. As a life-long Catholic, age 80, he employs...
by Penny Lord, Bob Lord
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
There was a large Crucifix on the back wall of the Church. Many in the parish had a great devotion to Our Crucified Lord and paid homage to Him on this Crucifix. But on this particular evening, they were coming to the close of the mission, and so the attention was not on the Crucifix, but on the priests,...
The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots
From Combat to Camelot to Katrina Memoir of an Extraordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
"I felt as numb and emotionally exhausted as every other American struggling to make sense of the stunningly brutal murder. My own grieving, however, would have to wait. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy had asked that I deliver the eulogy for her husband--and my friend." -- Archbishop Philip HannanWhether...
Radical Disciple
Father Pfleger, St. Sabina Church, and the Fight for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Revealing the story of a white Catholic priest serving a black Chicago parish who has been criticized as a trouble-making maverick, a renegade cleric, and a publicity hound, this book is a fascinating look at the inner workings of the Catholic Church, the traditions of the black pulpit, and what it...
by Richard Panchyk
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Catholic New York City celebrates the religious and cultural life f one of the largest Catholic populations in the world. The first Catholic church was founded in the 1780s, and the diocese was subsequently founded in 1808, when there were only a few priests in the entire state. The 1879 completion of...
by Christina Cox
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The Catholic community of Washington, DC, has grown and changed dramatically since 1939, when Pope Pius XII separated the city from the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Catholics in Washington, DC preserves the passion and devotion of Catholics who had Godly visions of making new religious institutions,...