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Catholic
Books and DVD by Ignatius
Credo
for Today
Author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
What do Christians believe? What
gives meaning to our life? What is the purpose of life? The Christian answer
to these questions is found in the Creed, in the profession of faith. But
what do the articles of this confession actually mean? And how to they affect
our lives?
Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, takes a fresh look at these timeless
questions. This work is a reflection of the profound, personal insights of
Benedict XVI, but also of the great foundations of Christianity: faith, hope,
and charity.
Ratzinger writes eloquently and persuasively about the importance for followers
of Christ to understand well what they believe so one can live as a serious
Christian in today’s secular world. He talks in depth about the true
meaning of faith, hope, and love—the love of God and the love of neighbor.
He also discusses the crucial importance of a lived faith, for the believer
himself as well as being a witness for our age, and striving to bring faith
in line with the present age that has veered off into rampant secularism and
materialism.
"In our generation the Christian Faith finds itself in a much deeper
crisis than at any other time in the past. In this situation it is no solution
to shut our eyes in fear in the face of pressing problems, or to simply pass
over them. If faith is to survive this age, then it must be lived, and above
all, lived in this age. And this is possible only if a manifestation of faith
is shown to have value for our present day, by growing to knowledge and fulfillment."
—Pope Benedict XVI
Code: CFT-H
Price: $19.75
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Handbook of Catholic Apologetics
Author: Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli
Unbelievers, doubters and skeptics
continue to attack the truths of Christianity. Handbook of Catholic Apologetics
is the only book that categorizes and summarizes all the major arguments in
support of the main Christian beliefs. Also included is a Protestant-friendly
treatment of Catholic-Protestant issues. The Catholic answers to Protestant
questions show how Catholicism is the fullness of the Christian faith.
Handbook of Catholic Apologetics is full of the wisdom and wit, clarity and
insight of philosophers Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli. This is an informative
and valuable guidebook for anyone looking for answers to questions of faith
and reason. Whether you are asking the questions yourself or want to respond
to others who are, here is the resource you have been waiting for.
Topics include:
faith and reason
the existence of God
God's nature
creation and evolution
providence and free will
miracles
problem of evil
Bible's historical reliability
divinity of Christ
Christ’s resurrection
life after death
heaven, hell, purgatory
salvation
Christianity and other religions
objective truth
the Eucharist
Mary
Communion of saints
Catholic hierarchy
Peter J. Kreeft, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy at Boston College where
he has taught since 1965. A popular lecturer, he has also taught at many other
colleges, seminaries and educational institutions. Kreeft has written more
than fifty books, including Fundamentals of the Faith, You Can Understand
the Bible, Catholic Christianity, Because God is Real, Heaven: The Heart’s
Deepest Longing and Summa of the Summa.
Ronald Tacelli, S.J., is associate professor of philosophy at Boston College
and has published articles in the Public Affairs Quarterly and Dowside Review.
Code: HCATA-P
Price: $21.95
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Light and Shadows
Author: Walter Brandmueller
The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition,
the Reformation, and the Renaissance popes conjure in the imagination a corrupt
Roman Catholic clergy hungry for wealth and power. In this insightful, well
researched work, the Vatican’s chief historian, Fr. Walter Brandmuller,
takes a thoughtful and understanding look at these and other important chapters
in Church history.
Without denying, or flinching at, the human capacity for folly, failure, and
evil, Brandmuller moves beyond the caricatures and legends that often substitute
for real history to reveal a Church, both human and divine, fulfilling its
mission in every time and place. His goal is not to whitewash any of these
past events or issues, but rather to illuminate them, and bring to them a
more in-depth, comprehensive historical understanding on the basis of their
causes, circumstances and effects.
“Now let us take into consideration Church history from the theological
viewpoint, highlighting another important aspect. Its essential duty, in fact,
turns out to be the complex mission to investigate and clarify that process
of reception and transmission, of paralépsis and of paràdosis,
through which was substantiated, in the course of the ages, the Church's raison
d'être. Indeed, it is beyond a doubt that the Church can draw inspiration
for her choices by drawing on her centuries-old treasury of experience and
memory.”
—Pope Benedict VXI, Address to the members of the Pontifical Committee
for Historical Sciences, March 7, 2008.
Father Walter Brandmuller is president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical
Sciences. From 1970 to 1997, he was a professor of Church history at the University
of Augsburg, Germany. He is the co-author of the German book The Fall of Galileo
and Other Errors: Power, Faith and Science.
Code: LS-P
Price: $16.95
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The Mass and the Saints
Author: Thomas Crean
The Mass and the Saints is a work
both of deep spirituality and profound insight into the glories of the Church's
liturgy. It brings together passages from great spiritual writers throughout
the ages, from all centuries in which the Mass has been offered. Every aspect
and part of the Mass is covered, the quotations forming a continuous commentary
on the central action of the Church's worship.
Most of the authors are canonized saints of the Church, and many are doctors
of the Church. Included are Church Fathers such as St. Augustine, St. Jerome,
and St. Gregory the Great; great scholars of the Middle Ages such as St. Anselm,
St. Albert the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas; and more modern figures such
as Prosper Gueranger and Pope John XXIII.
The quotations have been selected and freshly translated by Fr. Thomas Crean.
These writings will nourish understanding and appreciation of the Mass, and
also aid prayer and contemplation.
Fr. Thomas Crean OP, is the author of the widely praised God is No Delusion:
A Refutation of Richard Dawkins. He is a Dominican friar of the Priory of
St. Michael the Archangel, Cambridge.
Code: MASA-P
Price: $14.95
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A Postcard from the Volcano
Author: Lucy Beckett
Beginning in 1914 and ending on
the eve of World War II, this epic story follows the coming of age and early
manhood of the Prussian aristocrat, Max von Hofmannswaldau. From the idyllic
surroundings of his ancestral home to the streets of cosmopolitan Breslau
menaced by the Nazi SS, Hofmannswaldau uncovers the truth about his own identity
and confronts the modern ideologies that threaten the annihilation of millions
of people.
A Postcard from the Volcano opens with the outbreak of World War I and the
Prussian pride and patriotism that blind the noble von Hofmannswaldau family
to the destruction that lies ahead for their country. The well-researched
narrative follows the young count as he leaves home to finish his education
and ends up a stranger in the land of his birth.
Both intelligent and sensitive, Beckett’s prose explores the complex
philosophical and political questions that led Europe into a second world
war, while never losing sight of a man whose life is shaped by his times.
A deeply moving historical novel that shows the horrific impact that two world
wars had on whole countries, and how individuals struggled to deal with the
incredible challenges presented by such devastation.
Lucy Beckett studied history at Cambridge and is the author of several books,
including her highly acclaimed work, In the Light of Christ: Writings in the
Western Tradition, as well as another work of historical fiction, The Time
Before You Die: A Novel of the Reformation. She lives in Yorkshire, England,
where she teaches at Ampleforth Abbey.
Code: PV-P
Price: $19.75
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The Red Book of Chinese Martyrs
Author: Gerolamo Fazzini
This powerful book presents documents
on a span of time that begins with the war between the Communists and Chinese
Nationalists in the mid 1940's and continues until 1983, shortly before the
phrase of "modernization" promoted by Deng Xiaoping after the death
of Mao. They cover four crucial decades in contemporary Chinese history. These
documents are the memoirs of persons who have experienced in their own flesh
how far the violence of a power blinded by ideology can go, a power which,
after winning its battle against an armed enemy, had decided to exterminate
its "enemies without gun", as Mao in a famous speech described intellectuals,
believers and opponents.
From the historical perspective these are contributors of great value, especially
for anyone who wants to learn about the injustices and brutality of Maoism.
Only in recent years have non-specialists had access to autobiographical testimonies
concerning the laogi, the Chinese forced labor camps. But we have a long way
to go before we know about that life in as much detail as is available concering
the Soviet gulags thanks to Solzhenitsyn. The Red Book of Chinese Martyrs
partially fills this gap. It is a gap that originated in precise politico-cultural
circumstances which explain why a book of this sort has never until now seen
the light of day.
The ideological baggage encumbering historiography and journalism on the subject
of China has severly limited the opportunities for learning about and publicizing
these stories of Christian persecution and martyrdom. The Red Book of Chinese
Martyrs intends to be also a denunciation of Maoism and of its crimes. After
decades of ideological propaganda, we are finally able to see a "demythologization
of Mao", who was responsible for crimes equal to or even worse than those
of Stalin and Hitler (eighty million dead during the period of the "Great
Leap Forward", 1958-1961).
While reading The Red Book of Chinese Martyrs one cannot help noticing what
a tragedy has befallen the Chinese people, in particular the believers. But
all this has not destroyed thier faith. Therefore Cardinal Zen is able to
write in his Preface: "The pages that you will read are not primarily
pages of suffering and sorrow; they are also and above pages of joy."
Gerolamo Fazzini, a professional journalist, is the co-director of the monthly
magazine World and Mission of PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions),
and an editorial writer for the daily newspaper Avvenire. An expert on international
topics and religion news, he coordinates the Italian Federation of the Missionary
Press which represents about forty missionary publications. He has reported
on various stories in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and China.
Code: RBCM-P
Price: $16.95
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Socrates Meets Hume
Author: Peter Kreeft
This book is the 6th book in a series
of Socratic explorations of some of the Great Books. The books in this series
are intended to be short, clear, and non-technical, thus fully understandable
by beginners. Through such Socratic dialogues, Peter Kreeft introduces (or
reviews) the basic questions in the fundamental divisions of philosophy: metaphysics,
epistemology, anthropology, ethics, logic, and method.
In Socrates Meets Hume, Kreeft presents a Socratic examination of enquiry
concerning human understanding in relation to the skepticism of Hume, posing
questions that challenge the concepts that Hume proposed. Kreeft states that
Hume is the “most formidable, serious, difficult-to-refute skeptic in
the history of human thought.”
Kreeft invites you to take part in the process of refuting Hume’s skeptical
arguments, with the aid of Socrates. Based on an imaginary dialogue between
Socrates and Hume that takes place in the afterlife, this profound and witty
book makes an entertaining and informative exploration of modern philosophy.
“Peter Kreeft’s work is always: (1) unfailingly brilliant, (2)
intellectually agile, (3) astonishingly perspicacious, (4) gloriously orthodox,
(5) Chestertonianly aphoristic.”
—Thomas Howard Author, Dove Descending: T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
Code: SOC06-P
Price: $12.95
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Why Preach?
Author: Peter John Cameron, O.P
Well known for his teaching, writing,
and editing of Magnificat, the widely popular monthly publication containing
the Scripture readings and prayers for the Mass used weekly by several hundred
thousand Catholics, Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P., offers here expert spiritual
and practical help for priests, pastors and seminarians desiring to preach
effectively.
Why Preach draws from the author’s rich understanding of the Word of
God as the challenging, encouraging, and healing presence of Christ, as well
as from his own experience as both a preacher and a teacher of homiletics.
With an eye focused on the works and examples of Pope John Paul II and Pope
Benedict XVI, Father Cameron illustrates that good preaching derives from
and leads to an encounter with Christ, the Word of God made Flesh, who comes
to us through the Scriptures.
The objective of the book is to help preachers to think about preaching in
a new, dynamic way. Its aim is to provide a fresh and helpful vision of preaching
geared to deepening a preacher's appreciation of what preaching is, and the
great spiritual impact that good preaching can have on its audience, so as
to increase his desire and ability to preach well.
Code: WHYP-P
Price: $16.95
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The Tears of God
Author: Fr. Benedict Groeschel
Fr. Benedict Groeschel, best-selling
author and beloved spiritual teacher, writer, and psychologist, wrote this
latest book for all those who have suffered great sorrow or catastrophe in
their lives and for those close to such persons, who share their deep suffering.
Sorrow comes into the life of every person, but only into the lives of some
people comes catastrophe. These are disasters that occur either suddenly or
with terrible effects, like the death of a child. They can be natural disasters
like hurricanes, or they can be horrific accidents or tragedies caused by
people's evil acts. They can also arise from wars and situations of great
tension.
Fr. Benedict has written previously about faith and sorrow (Arise from Darkness)
and seeks in this book to study catastrophes of all different kinds in relationship
to our faith in divine providence, in God’s goodness and mercy, and
finally in the light of Christ’s suffering and death. Christianity is
the only religion which speaks of a God who suffered a terrible catastrophe—crucifixion
and death. Therefore, the Christian must, in the midst of catastrophe, find
his way to the foot of the cross, and there he will find answers which cannot
be given by any other religious faith.
All religions attempt to deal with catastrophe, all confront the mystery of
suffering and of evil. Christianity invites you to share the burden of your
catastrophe with the person who is our Savior and Redeemer, one who Himself
endured great pain and sorrow, the son of God, Jesus Christ.
Code: TEGO-P
Price: $10.95
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America Alone
The End of the World as We Know It
Author: Mark Steyn
Someday soon, you might wake up
to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. And liberals
will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"—while
Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops,
the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn’t violate the “separation
of church and state,” and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay
rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.
If you think this can’t happen, you haven’t been paying attention,
as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steyn—the most popular
conservative columnist in the English-speaking world—shows to devastating
effect in this eagerly awaited new book on American and global politics.
Steyn argues that, contrary to the liberal cultural relativists, America should
proclaim the obvious: we do have a better government, religion, and culture
than our enemies, and we should spread America’s influence around the
world—for our own sake as well as theirs.
Code: AAEW-P
Price: $16.95
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7 Secrets of the Eucharist (Book on CD)
Author: Vinny Flynn
A dramatic and inspiring audio presentation
of Vinny Flynn’s best-selling book, read by the author, with a supporting
cast of voices and beautiful instrumental excerpts from the Still Waters music
CD Benedictus.
Code: SSE:A-D
Format: CD
Price: $16.95
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The Seven Last Words of Jesus
Author: Romanus Cessario, O.P.
The Seven Last Words of Jesus features:
• A profound and lively reflection on Christ’s last words
• Addresses many everyday concerns: marriage, liturgy, suffering, vocations,
etc.
• The sacred mysteries of Christ crucified carefully explored through
the lens of sacred art
• An invaluable companion – a beautiful resource you will return
to throughout the year
• An ideal gift for Catholics and for those who wish to understand the
mystery of the Cross of Christ. Well suited for adult catechetical instruction
and RCIA
• Foreword by His Eminence, Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop of New
York
• Soft cover with flaps – 96 pages – 6 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.
“Father Cessario writes powerfully and lovingly about each of the seven
statements uttered by the Son of God on Calvary’s cross and finds in
each of them a remarkable expression of the ‘divine order,’ the
theme that underlies his entire composition. The ease with which he cites
Scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and theologians of all eras
never ceases to amaze. One immediately senses that we are being taught and
inspired by a deeply committed follower of the Lord who loves and reveres
all that the Church teaches and earnestly desires to share it with others.
In the name of the thousands who heard Father Cessario on Good Friday 2008
in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral and the thousands more who will have an
opportunity to read and meditate these pages, and in my own name as well,
I express my admiration and heartfelt gratitude to this extraordinary theologian
and preacher.”
— From the Foreword by Edward Cardinal Egan Archbishop of New York
Code: SLWJ-P
Price: $12.95
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Man Before God
Author: Adrienne von Speyr
In Man Before God, the mystic Adrienne
von Speyr offers her reflections on this personal encounter with the God who
is eternal love. Acknowledging the limitations of man in the face of the boundlessness
of God, she considers both the various ways God continues to speak to man—through
his Word in Scripture, through his Son in the sacraments, though saints and
neighbors—as well as the necessity for man to respond. Through her guidance,
we come to see every circumstance as an invitation to encounter and worship
God.
From this perspective she explores with clarity and simplicity such topics
as:
the meaning of prayer and contemplation
living in the Word
the relationship between discipleship and Eucharist
the place of Mary and the Church
the meaning of work and the religious life, joy and truth, knowledge and darkness
Code: MBG-P
Price: $10.95
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My Grandfather's Son
Author: Clarence Thomas
Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly
honest, My Grandfather’s Son is the story of one of America’s
most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court justice Clarence
Thomas. Thomas was born in rural Georgia on June 23, 1948, into a life marked
by poverty and hunger. His parents divorced when Thomas was still a baby,
leaving his mother to raise him and his brother and sister on the ten dollars
a week she earned as a maid. At age seven, Thomas and his brother were sent
to live with his mother’s father, Myers Anderson, and her stepmother
in their Savannah home. It was a move that would forever change Thomas’s
life. His grandfather, whom he called “Daddy,” was a man with
a strict work ethic, trying to raise a family in the years of Jim Crow. Thomas
witnessed his grandparents’ steadfastness despite injustices, their
hopefulness despite bigotry, and their deep love for their country. His own
quiet ambition would propel him to Holy Cross and Yale Law School, and eventually—despite
a bitter, highly contested public confirmation—to the highest court
in the land. In this candid and deeply moving memoir, Clarence Thomas recounts
his astonishing journey for the first time, and pays homage to the man who
made it possible. Illustrated with many photos.
Code: MGS-P
Price: $15.95
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Will Catholics Be Left Behind?
Diary Of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska
Our
Lady Of Kibeho
Heaven Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa
Richard
And Sabina Wurmbrand
The Underground Pastor and His Wife
Jewish
Roots Of Catholicism
A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers
Loretta Young's Road To Lourdes And Other Miracles
Paul Of Tarsus Messenger of Jesus Christ - DVD
Lost Gospels Or False Gospels?
Pope
Benedict XVI Formal Portait
Framed Pictures for Parish or Home
Made with Ornate Black/Gold Frame under Non-Glare Glass
Papal
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