Angelico Press: 24 books
With Christ
An Anthology of the Writings of Blessed Columba Marmion
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
With Christ is an anthology of writings from Blessed Marmion's outstanding trilogy: Christ, the Life of the Soul; Christ in His Mysteries; and Christ, the Ideal of the Monk; as well as from his letters in Union with God and personal notes on his own spiritual life--focused on the theme of suffering and...
by F. J. Sheed
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
Theology for Beginners is one of the most outstanding presentations of the central doctrines of the Catholic faith ever penned. For those to whom these doctrines once seemed formidable, Sheed's is a fresh voice of lucid and carefully reasoned prose. To read Theology for Beginners is to have one mind's awakened to the spiritual realities at the center of human existence.
The Tumbler of God
Chesterton as Mystic
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
"We need a new kind of mystic," writes Fr. Robert Wild; and in The Tumbler of God, he presents a spiritual portrait of G.K. Chesterton that convincingly shows why he is precisely the new kind of mystic we need. Chesterton's mysticism was grounded in an experiential knowledge that existence is a gift...
by G. K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
According to Chesterton, "once Christ had Risen, it was inevitable that Aristotle should rise again." St. Thomas Aquinas provided that marvelous synthesis, which could only strengthen the believer's affirmation of the reality and goodness of created being. This book is a splendid introduction to both...
by Maria Montessori
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The Mass Explained to Children presents the beauty, depth, and simplicity of the traditional Latin Mass, helping to make it easily understandable for any and every child. With acute sensitivity to the purity and clarity of a child’s mind and soul, Maria Montessori wisely instructs in how to prepare...
Acedia and Its Discontents
Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
While the term acedia may be unfamiliar, the vice, usually translated as sloth, is all too common. Sloth is not mere laziness, however, but a disgust with reality, a loathing of our call to be friends with God, and a spiteful hatred of place and life itself. As described by Josef Pieper, the slothful...
The Case for Catholic Education
Why Parents, Teachers, and Politicians Should Reclaim the Principles of Catholic Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Catholic schools have long contributed to the mission of the Church and to the flourishing of society. During the past few decades, however, Catholic schools have suffered severe losses, both in their religious identity and in their capacity to attract students. With penetrating insights, pointed anecdotes,...
by Fulton J. Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Fulton J. Sheen turned his voice and pen to many subjects during the course of a long and remarkable apostolate. But nothing was closer to the heart of his message than bringing the words of Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother to bear on the problems of modern life and the modern world. In this book, Archbishop...
Heralds of the Second Coming
Our Lady, the Divine Mercy, and the Popes of the Marian Era from Blessed Pius IX to Benedict XVI
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the past 200 years, the Catholic Church has approved a series of private revelations with a deeply apocalyptic undercurrent. But what have the popes taught concerning these times? In this ground-breaking book, Stephen Walford uncovers the astonishing truth that the successors of St. Peter have together...
by Frank Sheed, F. J. Sheed
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An extraordinary new edition of Frank Sheed’s classic work. His masterful account of the life of Christ Jesus stands on its own, but Christ walks again among the pages of this book in a unique way: over 100 illustrations from the French artist James Tissot’s outstanding series on the Life of Christ...
by Fulton J. Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Fulton J. Sheen was remarkable in his ability to uncover many layers of meaning in the life and words of Jesus of Nazareth. The Seven Beatitudes and The Seven Words from the Cross -- both were delivered from a mountain, but the connection runs deeper than that. As Bishop Sheen points out, Our Lord began...
Our Way and Our Life:
Christ in His Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
The present volume is a shorter edition of Christ in His Mysteries, Dom Columba Marmion's profound reflection on the Mysteries of Christ's birth, death, Resurrection, and Ascension as presented in the Gospels and the Liturgical Year. In Blessed Marmion's words, the mysteries that Jesus lived were lived...
Against Inclusiveness
How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Diversity. Inclusiveness. Equality.—ubiquitous words in 21st-century political and social life. But how do those who police the limits of acceptable discourse employ these as verbal weapons to browbeat their often hapless fellows into having a "real conversation"? How do these terms function as mere...
Beauty in the Word
Rethinking the Foundations of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
What is a good education? What is it for? To answer these questions, Stratford Caldecott shines a fresh light on the three arts of language, in a marvelous recasting of the Trivium whereby Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric are explored as Remembering, Thinking, and Communicating. These are the foundational...
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