THE BATTLE LINES HAVE BEEN DRAWN ... Many Christians have fallen into the trap of proclaiming "Peace! Peace!" when there is no peace. Hiding their eyes from the pressing issues of the day, they believe that resistance to the prevailing culture is useless. At the same time, other Christians have been too quick to declare war, mistaking battlefield casualties as enemies rather than victims. …

Bishop Sheen’s extraordinarily insightful, if unique, interpretation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son in this work, is historical rather than moral. The younger son in the parable is Western Civilization. After many long centuries in union with the Father’s House, the Church, Western Civilization finally asked its Spiritual Father for its share of the inheritance — not …

Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Fifth Instruction "For the Right Implementation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council" This document provides the official guidelines for the translation of liturgical texts. Of great importance is the rejection of the equivalent language approach to translation that claims to preserve the …

A letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons and Non-Discrimination Against Homosexual Persons--Some Considerations Concerning the Response to Legislative Proposals

G.K. Chesterton As you may suspect, The Neumann Press considers this a great and grand characteristic book in the true traditional spirit of Chesterton. The stories, chapters and notes of the special book range over all sorts of things from lady barristers to cavemen, and from psychoanalysis to free verse. In the introduction Chesterton says: “The wild theorists of our time talk of making new …

End of Life Issues From the " What The Church Teaches " pamphlet series. The Catholic Church teaches that all life, from conception to natural death, is sacred.  However, modern medical advances have made end of life issues increasingly difficult to sort out.  What is the difference between letting a person die and practicing euthanasia?  Can Catholics have "living wills?"  …

Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Fourth Instruction for the Right Application of the Conciliar Constitution on the Liturgy This document addresses the idea of adaptation of the liturgy to a local culture. It explains when this should occur and to what extent adaptions may be made. The document is divided into the following sections: Introduction I. The …

Raymond Dennehy Dennehy, a professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, has debated proabortionists with great success in the most hostile environments. This is his inspiring personal account of nearly four decades of debating abortion on radio, television, and university campuses. "The most articulate and forceful voice in the United States to explain and critique the abortion …

Is The Fetus Human? Eric Pastuszek Biological, medical, legal, cultural, social and emotional evidence combined in an amazing array of facts to prove the fetus is human, plus many personal testimonies. One of the best pro-life books ever!

The Reform of Renewal Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, C.F.R. This clear and unequivocal call for personal reform as the basis of authentic renewal in society and in the Church is rooted in several sources. The work of an internationally recognized Biblical scholar (Rudolph Schnackenburg) is woven in with the observations of contemporary social critics as well as behavioral scientists. The author …

Celebrating the Mass Six Weeks with the Bible: Catholic Perspectives By Kevin Perrotta For busy adults who want to study the Bible but don't know where to begin, Six Weeks with the Bible provides an inviting starting point. Each guide is divided into six concise, 90-minute segments that introduce one book of the Bible. All biblical text is printed in the guides, which means no additional …

John Saward In the pre-Christian world, children were slain on pagan altars, and now, in the post-Christian world of the affluent West, children are again the object of adult hostility. In the U.S.A. the abuse of children has been called a "national emergency", while in almost every country on earth the killing of children still unborn has become an ideology of "choice". In this challenging …

Denis Crouan Crouan, the author of several studies on liturgical questions including the book The Liturgy Betrayed (see. p. 22), presents another penetrating work on the state of the Eucharistic Liturgy, the problems and errors that still exist, and how to correct these abuses. The responses Crouan has received to all of his writing and speaking on this topic from Catholics of every stripe …

The movement for same-sex marriage has triggered an unprecedented crisis in the social norms and laws governing marriage. All great civilizations have sought to unite, in the institution of marriage, the goods of sexual intimacy, childbearing and childrearing, and life-long love between adults. But the last five decades have witnessed the erosion of marriage as a public institution in the …

Steve Kellmeyer From parochial schools through Catholic colleges and universities, commentators agree that the Catholic system of education in America has broken down. While there remain a handful of schools which still pass on the Faith, most no longer do. What happened? Using the evidence of Magisterial, European and American history, this book analyzes the historical standards the Catholic …

For more than thirty years the Church has been torn by a conflict that revolves around the question of the Liturgy. In this instructive and practical work, Denis Crouan has two purposes in mind. On the one hand, he analyzes the weight and validity of the arguments of the different liturgical factions in the Church. On the other hand, he makes accessible to everyone the instructions and …

G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton has been described by both his admirers and even his opponents as the "apostle of common sense"  and "one of the happiest, kindest, most brilliant and witty" defenders of Christianity that ever lived.  From his youthful days as a free-thinking Victorian to his entry into the Catholic Church, G.K. Chesterton aslways seemed to be a man who loved …

"I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam." Thus warned Hilaire Belloc in 1936 -- long before the Christian West permitted millions of Moslems to immigrate and proliferate, building thousands of new mosques in the United States and Europe, including a huge one in Rome itself a few years ago. Belloc's essay on Moslems, together with five important …

A Catechism Of Modernism Fr. J.B. Lemius, O.M.I. Modernism is a heresy condemned by Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), yet it is the predominating error in the Catholic Church since Vatican II (1961-1964). This book exposes its errors, called by St. Pius X the "synthesis of all heresies." St. Pius X commended the author of this catechism, expressing the hope it would receive wide circulation. …

If you want your kids to learn baseball, you send them to sports camp. If you want them to master a foreign language, you find them a tutor or send them abroad. And if you want them to learn about the riches of Catholic tradition, you send them to the most illustrious Catholic schools in the country. Right? Wrong. Mark Gauvreau Judge, one of the most talented writers to emerge from GenX, takes …