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Basándose en recursos sin explotar, entrevistas exclusivas y nueva investigación de archivos, La última cruzada del Papa por Peter Eisner es un emocionante relato que trae a la luz el valiente esfuerzo del Papa Pío XI para condenar el nazismo y la política del Tercer Reich -una cruzada que podría haber cambiado el curso de la segunda guerra mundial. Un escandaloso relato de intriga y suspenso, ilustrado con dieciséis páginas de fotos de archivos,...
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Soeur Yvonne-Aimée de Jésus (1901-1951), augustine de Malestroit, nous introduit dans ce profond mystère du coeur de Jésus à qui elle se donna secrètement à l'âge de 9 ans au moment de sa première communion. me eucharistique, elle le demeura toute sa vie, favorisée par les merveilles de l'amour de Jésus, qui la conduisit à l'union avec lui. Dans le silence et la solitude, elle connut des nuits spirituelles, des combats intérieurs d'une...
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"When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's deep depression. As lives are made...
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Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. Retelling the story of his long struggle with faith and ultimate conversion -- the first such spiritual memoir ever recorded -- Saint Augustine traces a story of sin, regret, and redemption that is both deeply personal and, at the same time, universal.
Starting with his early life, education, and youthful indiscretions,...
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THE BIBLE THAT FEELS LIKE HOME. THE BIBLE THAT LOOKS LIKE ART.
The Great Quotes Catholic Bible features a stunning design that will inspire you to spend more time with the Word of God. This edition includes an array of beautiful quotes from saints, artists, popes, and other figures of Church history-all designed in stained glass-inspired motifs. It's a Bible that feels like home-and looks like art! The text of this beautiful edition is presented in...
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Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a "complete understanding" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naïve? Why have she and her cinematic sisters...
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A bestselling journalist exposes the connection between the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis and the practice of confession. John Cornwell is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. The author of the New York Times bestseller Hitler's Pope, he lives in Draughton, England.
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Jean-Paul II en moins d'une heure !
Élu pape à la surprise générale en 1978, Jean-Paul II a marqué de son empreinte l'histoire pontificale. Pourtant rien ne le prédestinait à devenir le chef de l'Église catholique romaine. Alors qu'il souhaitait tout d'abord embrasser une carrière d'acteur, il finit par emprunter le chemin de la carrière ecclésiastique en 1942. Il prend rapidement part à...
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Association of Catholic Publishers 2022 Excellence in Publishing Awards: First Place, Theology
Catholic Media Association, Honorable Mention in Theology: Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, and Redemption
Unveiling divine mysteries across continents and centuries.
Revelation in the Vernacular retrieves a hermeneutics of the vernacular that is rooted en lo cotidiano, in everyday life and experience. Traversing time and geography, Ruiz...
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Matthew 18 is a heartfelt conversation between Bishop Bill Muhm and Carrie Bucalo, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Their mutual concern for the health and well-being of the Church led to an honest dialogue about the deep wounds victims experience, emerging in a fresh, relevant, and hopeful commentary.
Each chapter begins with a selected text from Matthew 18. Bishop Muhm offers theological insights, and Carrie responds with her experiences as...
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Patrick Neison Lynch, born in a small town in Ireland, became the third Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina. Lynch is remembered today mostly for his support of the Confederacy, his unofficial diplomatic mission to the Vatican on behalf of the Confederate cause, and for his ownership and management of slaves owned by the Catholic diocese. In the first biography of Lynch, David C. R. Heisser and Stephen J. White, Sr....
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Parish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century American race relations. In vivid portraits of parish life, John McGreevy examines the contacts and conflicts between European-American Catholics and their African American neighbors. By tracing the transformation of a church,...
2353) Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America
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In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns, Theresa Keeley analyzes the role of intra-Catholic conflict within the framework of U.S. foreign policy formulation and execution during the Reagan administration. She challenges the preponderance of scholarship on the administration that stresses the influence of evangelical Protestants on foreign policy toward Latin America. Especially in the case of U.S. engagement in El Salvador and Nicaragua, Keeley argues, the bitter...
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The 1960's were a turbulent time in our history. Our leaders were, assassinated, America was, bogged down in Vietnam, casualty numbers fought for space with Anti-War and Civil Rights movements on the front pages of every newspaper and for the lead story on the nightly news programs. Concurrently, while the world was, distracted by these problems, the monsters who preyed on children thrived. Even if they were, caught, there was practically no prosecution...
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Contributing to the ongoing excavation of the spiritual lifeworld of Dorothy Day-"the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism"-The Bread of the Strong offers compelling new insight into the history of the Catholic Worker movement, including the cross-pollination between American and Quebecois Catholicism and discourse about Christian antimodernism and radicalism. The considerable perseverance in...
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Maxime et Axelle se sont mariés devant Dieu et ont eu trois enfants. Au bout de quelques années, les rapports entre eux se sont tendus, jusqu'au divorce. C'est ce que nous apprenons par les lettres que Thierry et Marie-Pierre leur envoie, les accompagnant dans leur cheminement après le séisme, avec une grande amitié.
Aidé par les lettres de Thierry, un ami de son père, Maxime choisit de rester fidèle à leur sacrement de mariage et ne se...
2358) Juste
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Cet ouvrage a montré la polysémie du mot « juste ». Neuf chapitres ne sont pas de trop pour faire le tour - non exhaustif - de cette réalité multiple. C'est ainsi qu'ont été abordés les thèmes suivants :
1. L'étymologie
2. Juste : éléments du droit et des sciences sociales
3. Qu'est-ce qu'une société juste ? Approche des sciences morales et politiques
4. La distance juste et la distance injuste entre soignant et soigné
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Depuis plus de trois siècles, il ne se passe pas une année sans qu'un ouvrage ne paraisse sur saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660), sans qu'un article ne vienne apporter une insistance sur un passé connu, jeter quelque lumière nouvelle sur une vie débordante de vitalité et d'activités les plus diverses. Le secret de cette efflorescence est dans sa charité « inventive jusqu'à l'infini », comme l'amour de Dieu. Vincent, homme d'action, se présente...
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A tree just fell through the roof of the church!!!
"OH NO! Let's have a bake sale so we can fix it!"
If you've ever heard this conversation or one like it, you might realize that you need better tools than cookie sheets to raise big money. But where do you start?
Great fundraising starts with a powerful mission... and you have a mission that comes straight from Almighty God: "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations..."
"Letters from...
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