What Does the Bible Say About The End Times? A Catholic View by William Kurz, S.J. Where did we come from? Where are we going? How will the world come to an end? Has God given us clues from which we can deduce an end-time scenario? Will believers be "raptured," spared the tribulation of cataclysmic times? Many Catholics find themselves confused by current speculations among …
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 …
This powerful book is a thorough Catholic critique of the popular Fundamentalist belief in the "Rapture"-the belief that Christians will be removed from earth prior to a time of Tribulation and the Second Coming. Olson, editor of Envoy magazine and a former Fundamentalist, examines the theological, historical, and Biblical basis for the "Rapture" by carefully examining "premillennial …
Making Choices: Practical Wisdom for Everyday Moral Decisions by Peter Kreeft It's a moral jungle out there, writes Peter Kreeft. In Making Choices he describes why we find decision-making so difficult and living with our choices even harder. With penetrating wisdom, good humor, and common sense, Peter Kreeft draws a map through the everyday jungle of moral choices, one simple enough for …
The Catholic Controversy - St. Francis de Sales Defence Of The Faith by St. Francis de Sales This book is a collection of pamphlets written by St. Francis de Sales as a young priest (27 to 29) struggling to reach people who would not listen to him: the 72,000 Calvinists of the French Chablais region, who had lost the Faith 60 years previous. The task looked hopeless yet in four years 72,000 …
"Some in the Church dismiss the abuse scandal as “old news.” It isn’t. To understand the scandal’s still-unaddressed causes and grasp the magnitude of its aftershocks, Phil Lawler’s unflinching account is essential reading." George Neumayr Editor, Catholic World Report "Faithful Departed is a compelling pathology report …
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 …
What do your neighbors believe? It's more than just idle curiosity. In a time when religious misunderstandings threaten every one of us, it's our Christian duty to understand what our neighbors believe. What do Muslims do in a mosque? Why won't Christian Scientists go to doctors? What's the difference between a Presbyterian and a Methodist? Sometimes the real answers are mired in theological …
By Fr. Daniel Brandenburg, L.C. If you are someone who is concerned about the current world situation, recognizes the need for change, and wants to do something about it, you'll want to add The New Fundamentalists to your library. More than just a thought-provoking look at the challenges and problems which plague history today, here is a clear call to action with practical solutions.
In this new book, American Catholicism's premier public intellectual presents his most influential writings on today's pressing global issues. Weigel makes an eloquent case for democratic structures, just war, and the central role of reason in an irrational world. With his coinciding book on Jihadism (Doubleday) being an urgent manifesto for measures against the violent forms of Islam, here …
Two of the world's great contemporary thinkers — theologian and churchman Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and Neo-Marxist social critic — discuss and debate aspects of secularization, and the role of reason and religion in a free society. These insightful essays are the result of a remarkable dialogue between the two men, sponsored by …
Confronting error and falsehood in today's Catholic education environment. Modern American Catholic education has been inexorably impacted by Thomas Groome's Shared Christian Praxis and Elizabeth Shussler-Fiorenza's Feminist Theology of Liberation . Their writings and theories have affected many aspects of Catholic education and impeded the proper implementation of the Cathechism of the …
A call to political responsibility from the Catholic bishops of the United States. This statement continues a more than thirty-year tradition by the bishops of encouraging Catholics to use the values of their faith to shape their participation in political life. It focuses on helping Catholics form their consciences so they can make sound moral judgments about public choices. Faithful …
All of us have at one time or another wrestled with the problem of evil; few of us have not experienced in themselves the predicament of Job. Others have been consumed by the question: What is time? Some have cried that more attention be given the individual, specifically to women. Still others harbor a deep fear of the word "Americanize." In one way or another the foregoing …
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