Catholicism category: 4667 books
by Penny Lord, Bob Lord
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
When you enter a Roman Catholic Church, your eyes first go to the Altar and the King Who dwells there. The Altar of Sacrifice is there in the Sanctuary, ready for the next Sacrifice of the Mass, the ongoing Sacrifice of the Cross. As your eyes and heart travel, on the walls you see the truth of what...
Outside the Lines
A collection of National Catholic Reporter Cartoons by Pat Marrin
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Since joining the National Catholic Reporter in 1997, Pat Marrin has created hundreds of cartoons depicting many diverse issues in Catholic news. Outside the Lines is a collection of 28 of Pats best cartoons, taking you on a journey from the pre-Vatican II era church to the present. Enjoy several...
The Dark Box
A Secret History of Confession
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A bestselling journalist exposes the connection between the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis and the practice of confession.
Double Crossed
Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This groundbreaking exposé of the mistreatment of nuns by the Catholic Church reveals a history of unfulfilled promises, misuse of clerical power, and a devastating failure to recognize the singular contributions of these religious women.
The Roman Catholic Church in America has lost nearly 100,000...
For Christ's Sake
End Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church ... for Good
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In this new book, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson pulls no punches in his effort to go beyond merely 'managing' sexual abuse in the Church. He leads up to a call for nothing less than a Council of the whole Church to confront the issues raised in the book, within which he insists that the laity must play a major role.
Confirmation
How a Sacrament of God's Grace Became All about Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
What are we doing when we confirm teenagers? Why is the religious education of teenagers so perplexing? Why is confirmation often a moment of "graduation" out of parish life?
Confirmation: How a Sacrament of God's Grace Became All about Us tells the story of how confirmation, more...
Sex, Scandal and Secularism
Crisis in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the cardinals converge on the Vatican City to select a new pope, they face a church in steep decline in the Western world. Empty pews are indicative of a community that has lost faith with its church, a church that has been consistently conservative and has failed to address either the modern issues...
Catholics at a Crossroads
Coverup, Crisis, and Cure
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
IT IS THE GREATEST CRISIS EVER TO FACE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH—the sexual molestation of minors by priests and the way the church hierarchy tried to cover up the situation, endangering more children in the process. Once it became common knowledge in 2002, the ugly reality of a dysfunctional institution...
by The Catholic Digital News
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Catholic Digital News gathers the week's most important news stories involving the Catholic Church and publishes them within a single digital volume. Each edition is beautifully formatted with full-color images and features world, national, and Vatican news, plus opinion pieces, entertainment...
Bad Catholic's Guide to the Catechism
A Faithful, Fun-Loving Look at Catholic Dogmas, Doctrines, and Schmoctrines
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Masquerading behind the guise of the old-fashioned Catechism that generations of Catholic school kids in plaid skirts or clip-on ties had to memorize, this candid handbook provides a witty take on the teachings of the Catholic faith. Objections from relativist, New Atheist, dissenting Catholic, and...
by John C. Seitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close more than eighty churches. Distraught parishioners occupied several of these buildings in opposition to the decrees. Seitz tells the stories of these resisting Catholics in their own words, illuminating how they were drawn to reconsider the past and its meanings.
by Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
How the people of God, not the pope, changed the Catholic Church's teaching on birth control. A history of the papal birth control commission of the 1960s and its aftermath narrated by a man who was there, Time magazine's correspondent at Vatican II.
by John L. Allen Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
As leader of the world's largest Christian denomination, Pope Benedict wants modern men and women to recognize the teachings of the Catholic faith with new eyes. He wants us to look "back to the basics" but in an intelligent, provocative and attractive fashion. For the pope, Christianity...
by Geoffrey Blainey
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Christianity has played a central role in world history, for better or worse, but beyond the story of Jesus, many people know little of this story. Geoffrey Blainey takes readers on a journey from the very beginnings of Christianity through to the current day. Looking at the development of the religion...