Dr. Mark Miravelle "In the most difficult periods of the recent history of the Catholic Church in China, the lay faithful, both as individuals and families and as members of spiritual and apostolic movements, have shown total fidelity to the Gospel, even paying a personal price for their faithfulness to Christ" - Pope Benedict XVI Mark Miravalle's intense experiences as he travels …
The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy? One of America's foremost public intellectuals argues that Europe's abandonment of its spiritual and cultural roots raises urgent questions about democracy's future around the world - including the United …
David Carlin The Roots of the crisis that's rocked the pulpits and emptied the pews Many Catholics blame Vatican II for the decline of the Church in America these past 30 years: traditionalists say it caused too many changes, liberals say too few. In this groundbreaking book, sociologist David Carlin shows that although Vatican II was the flashpoint for change in the Church, the roots of …
A succinct presentation of the thought of Pope Benedict XVI on the crisis of values in the world today. In this impressive work on the crucial topics of the relationshsip between religion, culture, morality, truth and politics in these troubled times, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) passionately defends the vital role that Christian values play in our increasingly pluralistic and …
Peter Kreeft Juxtaposing "ecumenism" and "jihad", two words that many would consider strange and at odds with each other, Peter Kreeft argues that we need to change our current categories and alignments. We need to realize that we are at war and that the sides have changed radically: many of our former enemies (e.g. Muslims) are now our friends, and some of our former friends (e.g. humanists) …
David Carlin When author David Carlin was a young man, it was scandalous for a good Catholic to be anything but a good Democrat. In the pews, pubs, and union halls of America’s cities, millions of poor European immigrants and their children pledged allegiance to the Church of Rome and the party of FDR. All that changed in the 1960s, with the rise of a new kind of Democrat: wealthy, secular, …
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 …
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Godfried Cardinal Daneels Franciszek Cardinal Macharski Archbishop Dermot J. Ryan "The fact that there can be long-lasting periods of decline in the Church is, unfortunately, plain enough from history. Yet history also shows that the totality of the Church - which extends through the whole world and through all times and is held together and embodied by the …
Who should lead our country? The question requires much of Catholics, because our faith takes a clear position on so many issues shaped or determined by our political leaders. And it is difficult -- if not impossible -- to find a candidate who represents a Catholic view on a comprehensive range of topics. Yet our faith also calls for social responsibility, including participation in elections. …
Louis Veuillot Poems, Schemas, Introduction, and Chapter Summaries by Bishop Richard Williamson Louis Veuillot’s mid-19th century condemnation of liberal Catholicism throws a flood of light on the crisis of Church and world following on the Second Vatican Council. Catholics who read “The Liberal Illusion” will grasp, once and for all, that the crisis is primarily due not to Vatican II, …
E. Michael Jones Following up his best-seller, Degenerate Moderns , Jones reveals how major figures connected with modern music projected their own immorality into the field of music which has been the main vehicle of cultural revolution in the West. For the first time ever, a unified theory of music and cultural revolution links the work of figures like Wagner, Nietzsche, Schönborg, Jagger …
Soul of the World: Notes on the Future of Public Catholicism By George Weigel What is distinctive about the Church in the world? What does the Church ask of the world, and what should the world expect of the Church? Soul of the World is George Weigel's exploration of the rich theological roots of the public witness of the Roman Catholic Church, especially during the pontificate of John …
PARTISANS OF ERROR by Michael Davies . This book has the modest aim of explaining why Modernism is the most dangerous of all heresies, and the steps taken by St. Pius X to suppress it. The author rarely refers to the contemporary Church, and yet on page after page the reader will cry out: “But this is just what is happening today!” Those who read this book will know all they need to know about …
Is Christianity obsolete? Can an intelligent, educated person really believe the Bible? Or do the atheists have it right? Has Christianity been disproven by science, debunked as a force for good, and discredited as a guide to morality? Bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza ( What’s So Great About America ) looks at Christianity with a questioning eye, but treats atheists with equal …
Liberalism Is A Sin Fr. Felix Sarda Y Salvany Refutes every aspect of the deadly error that one religion is as good as another and that a person has a moral right to choose whichever religion suits him best. Cuts through the foggy religious thinking rampant today!
Teilhardism And The New Religion - A Thorough Analysis Of The Teachings Of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Dr. Wolfgang Smith Shows Teilhardian ideas are at the root of the "new religion" laying waste to the Catholic Church today. A definitive criticism of Teilhard's ideas, showing them to be scientifically false and philosophically impossible. Explodes the theory of physical evolution. Original …
The last 50 years have been confusing, tumultuous ones for Catholicism. Seminaries emptied, priests and nuns left their vocations, people dissented from basic teachings, and children received poor catecheses. What happened? This book answers that question. Part history, part Bible study, part apologetics manual, part Marian devotional, part catechism, The Signs of the Times is all profound …