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Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine By Russell Shaw This one-of-a-kind single-volume, popular encyclopedia is based on, complements, and makes more useful and usable, the Catechism of the Catholic …

What others are saying about CATHOLIC LAITY IN THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH... Russell Shaw is not only the foremost Catholic journalist of his generation, he is also more than an amateur theologian. …

Russell Shaw The battle lines are drawn.  On one side are the progressives who seek to weaken the office of the papacy through a systematic program of robbing the pope of his authority.  …

  Russell Shaw As Pope John Paul II has made clear in The Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, we must have an authentic Christian understanding of suffering in order to accept it. For pain …

   On December 11, 1965, three days after the close of Vatican II, Frank Duff, a lay observer at the Council, was ushered into a private audience with Pope Paul IV.  "Mr. …

Russell Shaw What's the proper role for a lay Catholic? Being a Eucharistic minister or fighting for better education on the city school board? Teaching a First Communion class or opposing …

The fallen nature of man and tendency toward sin is a reality that has lost credibility of late. But for John Henry Cardinal Newman "Original sin became to me almost as certain as that the …