Donna Steichen In this memorable book, seventeen women of the Baby Boom generation tell their poignant personal stories of apostasy and repentance. Each left the Catholic Church to seek autonomy and fulfillment on the major cultural battlegrounds of this era. Each eventually turned homeward to find, like her prodigal brother in the best-loved of Christ's parables, that her Heavenly …
Can you answer these questions? Why do you Catholics call your priests "father" when Mt 23:9 clearly says "call no man father"? Why do you Catholics worship the Eucharist? Isn't it just a symbolic piece of bread? How can you believe in God when there is so much suffering in the world? Why can't Catholics use contraception? Most Catholics can't. But you don't have to be tongue-tied the next …
Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio, one of the Church's best popular teachers, gives readable and inspiring explanations of Catholic teaching and practice. Exploring the Catholic Church is the perfect starter book for seekers and inquirers, for candidates in the RCIA, and for Catholics who just want to refresh their faith and practice. "Dr. D'Ambrosio's book is a pleasurable walk through various …
You don't have to become a biblical scholar or a theologian to be an effective spokesman for the Catholic Faith. In fact, even though you don't know all the answers and can't explain every aspect of the Faith, you can begin winning souls to the Church right now ... using prayer, friendship, and common sense. It sounds almost too good to be true, but in Search and Rescue Patrick Madrid explains …
Aime Georges Martimort Since the 17th century the history of deaconesses in the Church has been the subject of numerous monographs. What is most evident about the history of deaconesses, however, is how complex the whole subject is. In this exhaustive and thoroughly researched work, Martimort presents a very readable analysis that has become the standard study of the role of women deaconesses …
Patrick Madrid Answers to 30 Arguments that Mythed the Mark "As a Protestant minister, I sincerely believed and enthusiastically taught almost all the papal fictions which this book so deftly unmasks. In a very readable style, it catalogs and refutes those fictions charitably and completely. Had it been available when I first began to be drawn to the Church, my journey home …
"Do you have a family member or friend who has left the Catholic Church in search of greener pastures? My Life on the Rock is such a story, the story of a young man who leaves no rock unturned in his pursuit of the truth. While reading this book you may laugh, you may cry, but you certainly will face the issues that also face those who have left or are contemplating leaving the Catholic …
This is the Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII on Freemasonry, April 20, 1884. It discusses the beliefs of Freemasons and how they affect the Church.
Edited by Christine Anne Mugridge In these spiritual memoirs, twelve women - Joanna Bogle, Ronda Chervin, Jo Criossant, Marika Gubasci, Kimberly Hahn, Genevieve Kineke, Chiara Lubich, Susan Muto, Maureen Roach, Joy Shiroi, Alice von Hildebrand, and Mercedes Arzu Wilson - share about their journeys to Christ and the Church and about their vocations to serve in the Church and the world. Their …
Amy Welborn By Amy Welborn What do you say when someone tries to tells you: You're not a Christian because your church isn't Bible-based? You're not a Christian because what your church teaches isn't in the Bible? You're not a Christian because you believe that good works will get you to heaven? You're not a Christian because you worship Mary like a goddess? You're not a Christian because you …
Adrienne von Speyr From the Introduction In contrast to the slim volume on our Lady, Handmaid of the Lord , the pieces presented here, for the most part written a decade later, probe the ultimate profundities of Mariology. Each piece forms a meditation in its own right, while the order in which the pieces have been placed originates with the editor. Yet they all revolve around the same …
Paul Thigpen From the first century to the present day, Church history is speckled with the lifeblood of those who loved Jesus more than life itself. Encounter the faith of early believers such as Stephen and Paul. Marvel at the courage of those killed by pagan kings. Travel alongside early missionaries, whose deaths inspired others to come to faith. Mourn the unthinkable tragedy of Christians …
Lorene Hanley Duquin These are the conversions that made history. For most of the last hundred years, know-it-alls have been predicting the end of the Catholic Church and, indeed, all organized religion. Meanwhile, a steady stream of conversions has brought the best minds of recent history into the Church. Why did they convert? Why do countless thousands still convert every year? Lorene Duquin …
With Us Today: On the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist by Fr. John Hardon, S.J. The years following the Second Vatican Council have witnessed a crisis of faith in Christ Jesus ' Real Presence in the Eucharist. Lacking the faith that Jesus is truly, physically present in the Eucharist, Catholics today are often unable to understand the purpose of the Mass and of the ordained …
By a Jesuit Professor of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. (Imprimatur 1950). The brevity and conciseness with which the author presents this subject of vast importance will win a great multitude of readers; for this booklet is a capital illustration of the old Latin phrase, multum in parvo-—much in little space. It deserves millions of readers. If man has an eternal destiny, God must …
Dr. Albert von Ruville Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson, Editor Edited with an Introduction by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson. (Imprimatur 1914). The distinguished author had an illustrious military career and then a teaching career and at the time of his conversion to Catholicism was Professor of History at the most prestegious Protestant University in Germany, Halle University. This great and unique book …
Karl Keating defends Cathlicism from fundamentalist attacks and explains why fundamentalism has been so successful in converting "Romanists." After showing the origins of fundamentalism, he examines representative anti-Catholic groups and presents their arguments in their own words. His rebuttals are clear, detailed, and charitable. Special emphasis is given to the scriptural …
Ralph Martin Ten years after his best-selling book, A Crisis of Truth , Ralph Martin has again taken a look at the situation of the Catholic Church throughout the world from a quite different angle, and has offered a persuasive analysis of the spiritual factors at the heart of both the Church's difficulties and the hoped for renewal. In what reviewers have called an "awesome" marshaling …
A HISTORY OF APOLOGETICS Avery Cardinal Dulles Cardinal Avery Dulles provides a overview of Christian apologetics, from its beginning in the New Testament through the Middle Ages and on to the present. Dulles shows how Christian apologists have at times both criticized and drawn from their intellectual surroundings to present the reasonableness of Christian belief. No student of apologetics …
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