Ray Moore Chief Justice Roy Moore believes the state must acknowledge the moral principles on which America was founded and that it is not illegal to do so. While the separation of church and state may be a credible and legitimate tenet, it has been largely misconstrued and abused during the last forty years. Moore was sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. His critics, both …

This is an indispensable textbook on the Social Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church for would-be business professionals. The over-riding theme of this book is that the original unity of distributive and corrective justice that prevailed in both economics and moral discourse until the 16th and 17th centuries was shattered by the rise of an "individualistic" capitalism that relied on …

In 2005 the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn wrote a guest editorial in The New York Times that sparked a worldwide debate about “Creation and Evolution”. Pope Benedict XVI instructed the Cardinal to study more closely this problem and the current debate between “evolutionism” and “creationism,” and asked the yearly gathering of his …

A sequel to "The Death of Christian Culture," this spiritual treatise covers social, cultural, and political topics. It explores the importance of religious knowledge and faith to the health of a culture, provides a historical sketch of the change in cultural and educational standards over the last two centuries, and illustrates how literary and other visual arts either contribute to …

Get help in choosing a faithfully Catholic college - be able to separate the wheat from the chaff! The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College is the first college guide to show students where they can learn and grow in a genuine Catholic environment without the nonsense that has overtaken even some of the most well-known Catholic universities. It includes detailed profiles of more than …

Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition—the Great Tradition—of education in the West is waiting to be heard. Since antiquity, the Great Tradition has defined education first and …

This is the college guide that changed college guides! This revised and updated edition of ISI's critically acclaimed Choosing the Right College is perfect for those students—and their parents—who want an independent, truthful assessment of what is really happening at 134 of the nation's top schools. Unlike other college guides, which provide irrelevant statistics and …

Two of the world's great contemporary thinkers — theologian and churchman Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and Neo-Marxist social critic — discuss and debate aspects of secularization, and the role of reason and religion in a free society. These insightful essays are the result of a remarkable dialogue between the two men, sponsored by …

An important and timely consideration of the nature and rights of the human embryo. The bitter national debates over abortion, euthanasia, and stem cell research have created an unbridgeable gap between religious groups and those who insist that faith-based views have no place in public policy. Religious conservatives are so adamantly opposed to stem cell research in particular that President …

Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a far larger movement–one that now includes much of the scientific community. “The attack on traditional religious thought,” …

Confronting error and falsehood in today's Catholic education environment. Modern American Catholic education has been inexorably impacted by Thomas Groome's Shared Christian Praxis and Elizabeth Shussler-Fiorenza's Feminist Theology of Liberation . Their writings and theories have affected many aspects of Catholic education and impeded the proper implementation of the Cathechism of the …

Beginning Apologetics - the newest book in the bestselling series! Examines Islam's major beliefs, and shows how to charitably refute them using Christian teaching - the Scriptures, history, and, of course,  common sense.

By Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross O.C.D.) 2d ed., revised (1996), translated by Freda Mary Oben, Ph.D. Eight essays on the theme of woman and her vocation, with index.  With reason Edith Stein has been called "the most significant German woman of this century." Her writings on woman are the fruit of both reflection and debate with other leaders of the Catholic …

Available August 29! Profusely illustrated with many photos from the acclaimed movie and the making of it, this beautiful deluxe volume provides a behind-the- scenes look into the beloved, award-winning feature film from Metanoia Films. Much more than the typical book about a movie, this work presents compelling, never before told stories from the producer, director, actors and others involved …

This work features the most discussed topics of the life of the Church, treated with unique frankness and depth by the Church’s spiritual and theological leader. In this collection of essays, theologian Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI, tackles three major issues in the Church today—the nature of the Church, the pursuit of Christian unity, and the relationship of Christianity to …