A Conservative Book Club Main Selection Featured on BreakPoint with Chuck Colson The last thing parents should do is try to “balance” work and family. Confronting the overwhelming evidence that children suffer when their mothers leave them for the workplace, Brian Robertson asks why it has nevertheless become the norm for mothers to work. The answer, Robertson reveals, is a …

The New York Times best-seller The Da Vinci Code is all over the media. It's on the minds and in the conversations of many of your parishioners. Now there are two new resources to answer all their questions and help you understand the difference between fact and fiction. De-Coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of The Da Vinci Code, a book by Amy Welborn, addresses the …

In a clear and easy-to-read style, author Amy Welborn honestly and objectively lays out the facts about ancient Christian teaching and history, and points out the many surprising errors about religion, history, and art contained in The Da Vinci Code This is a great resource for parishes and book clubs. Please call for bulk pricing.

Donna Steichen Written by a Catholic journalist who has investigated feminism on its own ground, this remarkable book fully exposes the hidden face of Catholic feminism for the first time, revealing its theoretical and psychological roots in loss of faith.  Extensively documented, this is the definitive account of a movement impelled by vengeful rage to revolt against all spiritual …

The Da Vinci Code , Dan Brown’s best selling novel, purports to be more than fiction: it claims to be based on fact and scholarly research. Brown wants his readers to believe that he is revealing the long-concealed truth about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and early Christianity, a truth that he says has been suppressed by the malevolent and conspiratorial forces of the Catholic Church. The novel …

The Privilege of Being a Woman Alice von Hildebrand Women historically have been denigrated as lower than men or viewed as privileged. Dr. Alice von Hildebrand characterizes the difference between such views as based on whether man's vision is secularistic or steeped in the supernatural. She shows that feminism's attempts to gain equality with men by imitation of men is unnatural, foolish, …

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 …

Addresses 72 different issues raised by the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code , including: How Paul’s Letter to the Galatians proves Jesus did not wed Mary Magdalene, How Christians understand the place of pain in the world, Correct interpretation of The Last Supper and The Madonna of the Rocks, Where the Mona Lisa’s name comes from, Why pagan symbols have a role in Christian artwork, The …

Manfred Hauke Hauke provides a tour de force study of the history and basic characteristics of modern feminism. Hauke presents an objective, detailed study of the facts of feminist theology around the world, using their own words and writings. He looks at the distinctiveness of feminist theology, what its image of man is as a fundamental point of departure, its basis from the experience of …

Fr. Manfred Hauke This book should become the standard reference in the debate about women's ordination. The author cites copiously from American as well as European sources and presents the feminist position in the words and categories of the leading feminist authors. But, for the first time, the whole question is placed in the comprehensive context of anthropology, biology, psychology, …

Jenkins shines a light on anti-Catholic sentiment in American society and illuminates its causes, looking closely at gay and feminist anti-Catholicism, anti-Catholic rhetoric and imagery in the media, and the anti-Catholicism of the academic world.

Feminism and related ideologies have exerted unparalleled influence on organized religion for about three decades.  Nowhere is evidence of this dominant influence more obvious than in worship of the liberal mainline denominations.  The transformation of the language of worship began almost imperceptibly with relatively peripheral liturgical elements, such as prayers incorporating …

Ann Carey A generation ago, nearly 200,000 sisters worked in Catholic schools, hospitals and nursing homes, parishes, and social service agencies - robust institutions that the sisters themselves had largely built.  The Catholic people honored them.  Sisters gave precious witness to the spiritual richness of a vocation to the religious life. Today, only half as many sisters remain …