Liz Kelly Thirty-something Liz Kelly is successful writer and a jazz singer. She is also a devout Catholic who loves her faith and is eager to share its beauties with others. “Mine is not an extraordinary faith,” she writes, “so much as a faith growing, a little messy, a little rough and subversive around the edges. But the litany of reasons to love being Catholic is extraordinary.” Kelly …
What are you driving at? If your life's journey has you drifting randomly from one situation to the next, with no real sense of focus or fulfillment, The Drive Factor was written with you in mind. Here, you'll learn to answer challenging questions like: Who - or what - is the driving force of my life? What are life's 7 most important areas? How can I shift my life from 'park' into high gear? …
The Moral Compass - Stories for a Life's Journey Edited By William Bennett More than two million readers and listeners have used William Bennett's The Book of Virtues to help their families learn the essential traits of good character. Now his inspiring and instructive volume, The Moral Compass, offers more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in …
A wonderful, new collection of thoughts and meditations on the Church Year by Pope Benedict XVI. In this beautifully illustrated book, Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) gives us meditations on various Liturgical Seasons and Feasts throughout the year, as well as other interesting spiritual and secular themes. These profound and inspiring thoughts bring his broad theological experience as …
American society without Christ? It’s here. But - can the glory of Christian culture be revived? Christian culture is dead, asserted John Senior, the late - and noted - Humanities Professor at the University of Kansas. But who killed it? And why? In his classic work, now back in print after several years, Dr. Senior summons the guilty to justice. He details how Western elites came to …
Peter Kreeft believes that Blaise Pascal is the first post-medieval apologist. No writer in history, claims Kreeft, is a more effective Christian apologist and evangelist to todays uprooted, confused, secularized pagans (inside and outside the Church) than Pascal. He was a brilliant man-a great scientist who did major work in physics and mathematics, as well as an inventor-whom …
Fr. Dominic J. Unger OFM Cap. Few realize that a person can pursue a truly supernatural vocation by consecrating himself or herself to perpetual celibacy while yet living in the world. Here Fr. Unger describes the main guidelines for such a religious vocation, showing the nature of this vocation and the manner of dedicating oneself to it. The author gives the history in the Church of …
Agnes M. Penny Your Vocation of Love is a book by the mother of four young children, who has written this little manual to encourage mothers of young children in their sublime vocation of motherhood and to assist them in this glorious role with scores of practical tips on what to do in the challenging situations that automatically arise in raising and educating a family. Here the author shares …
How to find more meaning, and perhaps even joy, in your work. And accomplish more than you ever thought yourself capable of! What keeps so many of us from working to our fullest capacity? According to Fr. Raoul Plus, SJ, one of the most popular spiritual writers of mid-20th century, the fault is in our misunderstanding of the meaning of work, such that we find it a drudgery. In this just …
Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard From the silence of the monastery: Wise spiritual guidance for Christians active in the world Nearly a century ago, the Trappist monk Jean-Baptiste Chautard sat in the silence of his cell and wrote this classic book, showing us how to live in the noise and bustle of the world and to win more souls for Christ. Praised by Pope St. Pius X, Pope Benedict XV, and by many …
Losing a loved one is perhaps the most painful and overwhelming of life's experiences. It challenges you physically and emotionally and raises tough questions about the future -- about where God is in the midst of your pain. Your key to understanding all these issues -- and healing -- is your Catholic Faith. Grieving with the Help of Your Catholic Faith gives Catholics a meaningful way to help …
Peter Kreeft No issue is more fateful for civilization than moral relativism. History knows not one example of a successful society which repudiated moral absolutes. Yet most attacks on relativism have been either pragmatic (looking at its social consequences) or exhorting (preaching rather than proving), and philosophers' arguments against it have been specialized, technical, and scholarly. …
We read in the First Letter of St. Peter: In your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you. (3:15) The challenges that Christianity faces today call us to go back to the roots of our faith, to give an answer first to the questions we pose top ourselves, and second to the questions that …
If we have the eyes to see and the ears to hear, wisdom can be found in even the simplest of ordinary moments—driving to work, getting children ready for school, or sitting with a child on our lap. Denise Roy offers thirty-five entertaining and touching stories that show how family moments can bring spiritual rewards. A mother of four, a wife, and a psychotherapist, Roy often finds herself …
Ordinary Work, Exraordinary Grace My Spiritual Journey in Opus Dei Scott Hahn; Read by Paul Smith Opus Dei is an intriguing and oft-misunderstood organization. To its members, however, Opus Dei is a spiritual path, a way of integrating Jesus' teaching into their everyday lives. In this book, Scott Hahn, a member of Opus Dei, describes the organization's founding and mission and as well …
A New Generation of Catholic Writers Reflects on Life, Love, Sex, and Other Mysteries