Edited by Henry Dieterich Through the Year with Fulton Shee n is Sheen at his best-the master storyteller, preacher, and faithful servant of Christ with a word of encouragement, counsel, and direction for each day of the year. With characteristic insight and eloquence, he penetrates to the heart of the Christian life with reflections on love, holiness, spiritual power, miracles, and …

The literary writer and Professor of English Thomas Howard reveals his unique writing gifts and original insights as a young married man reflecting on the amazing variety of experiences he had during his years living in New York City. Howard presents an enthusiastic response on the part of a new, young husband to the great, twinkling kaleidoscope of New York, playing off the thousand …

Francis Fernandez-Carvajal and Peter Botela The life of spiritual childhood, or divine filiation, is the foundation for dealing with God in joy and peace. The authors present a simple and systematic way to understand and live this spirit in everyday life.  Based on the teachings of Saint Josemaria Escriva, recently canonized a saint on October 6, 2002.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Von Balthasar addresses the critical issues facing today's Catholic layman in a clear and readable manner. Speaking plainly on those ideas and questions which have unsettled many of the Catholic faithful, he brings much needed clarity into the contemporary confusion.

Andre Nguyen Van Chau Written by a personal friend of Cardinal Van Thuan, this moving biography chronicles the life of the man Pope John Paul II says was "...marked by a heroic configuration with Christ on the cross." From a communist jail cell, to Rome as the leader of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan remained a man of unshakable faith …

Mother Mary Francis, PCC "The poems of Mother Mary Francis, P.C.C., arise - blossom would be a better word - in that region where our human experience finds itself challenged by faith - by The Faith, really. A sharp consciousness of the Liturgy, the psalter, the religious life, and of the great mysteries of the Faith suffuses these utterances. One is awakened by the demanding syntax, the fresh …

Retreat to John Paul II and the Papal Household Cardinal Christoph Schönborn In this series of retreat meditations preached to Pope John Paul II and the papal household during a Lenten retreat, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn uses the Catechism of the Catholic Church (of which he was the general editor) and Sacred Scripture to lead us to a deeper union with Christ by helping us to understand and …

This book is written in verse as an excellent Catholic guide for children. Each large 9"x12" page is printed in two colors on heavy, quality paper and fully illustrated (detailed illustration on each page). A beautiful but sturdy book that children and parents will treasure for generations. Gold embossed cover. Sewn signatures.

This re-release of a Bishop Sheen classic is one of a long list of inspiring titles from the pen of this gifted writer and well-known TV personality. Love, anxiety, beauty, honesty, freedom, compulsion, self-pity, success, failure, health, joy, marriage, sex, faith, adventure — are just a few of the aspects of the human condition that the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen treats as he …

When The Son Of Man Comes Fr. Federico Suarez In this book, Fr. Federico Suarez reflects on several important and challenging passages from the Gospels, using them to explore key elements of the Christian life: faith, obedience, peace of soul, repentance, poverty, love and sexuality, the sacrament of penance, devotion to Mary, and more. Fr. Suarez, the respected author of "Mary of Nazareth" …

In Living Life Abundantly , Catholic teacher and television broadcaster Johnnette Benkovic tells the extraordinary stories of Catholics whose lives were changed by God's touch. Readers will find reasons for hope and joy in accounts of a mother who forgave her child's killer, of a woman healed of eating disorders, of a singer freed from the damage of date rape, of a male prostitute converted to …

Fr. Charles Quadrupani wrote this book for everyone who longs to give himself to God — and who knows what must be done to be holy — but who just can’t manage to break free of worldly habits. In other words, How to Love God and Keep His Commandments is for everyday folks like you and me. It will help you banish your discouragement and grow in the peace of God as you struggle to love Him and to …

Progress In Divine Union Fr. Raoul Plus, S.J. Our times cry out for saints! But how can we grow holy? In these pages, the wise Jesuit priest Raoul Plus teaches us two ways to do so. First, he explains how we must come to see ourselves as nothing, so we can practice a life of generosity — a life in which all we have and all we do is for God . . . without reservation. Then he shows how, through …

Fr. Francis Fernandez-Carvajal The author of In Conversation with God here zeroes in on the state of tepidity which endangers all souls which set out on the path towards holiness. The condition of lukewarmness is always preceded by a series of small infidelities. The radical cure to this sickness is thoroughly explained with practical resolutions. This is a new improved translation of this work.

By Rev. Murray Bodo, O.F.M. This book challenges the reader with a renewed understanding of the saint: a Francis who shows us a way of life both stimulating and troubling, who asks us to look again at the possibilities within us and around us, and to whom we turn repeatedly in interpreting our own human experience of God. The Franciscan way helps, transforms and renews us. The book is composed …

Archbishop Alban Goodier, S.J. No matter how good your intentions are, you can easily get so caught up in the things of this world that you forget God. But with help from this book, you can finally make the searching examination of your own life that you must make if you want to stay on the path to Jesus Christ. The author, Archbishop Alban Goodier, maintains it's not enough to call yourself a …

The Three Conversions In The Spiritual Life By Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange, OP Formerly titled The Three Ways of the Spiritual Life. All Catholics should go through three "conversions" in their spiritual life - but many do not, and thus remain spiritually stunted all their lives. Here, Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange - perhaps the greatest theologian of the 20th century - explains the classic Catholic …

In The Divine Romance , Bishop Sheen delves into love and life with all its pain, sorrow, loneliness and human failures from the perspective of our human quest for God, the inner life of the Trinity, the outpouring of the Spirit and most of all the Lord of Calvary and Easter. The book touches on perennial themes and is a classic that has a power to heal, help and inspire the reader. In his …