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Catholic Women Confront Their Church tells the stories of nine exceptional women who have chosen to remain Catholic despite their deep disagreements with the institutional church. From Barbara Blain……続きを見る

The brilliant and ground-breaking mimetic theory of the French-American theorist René Girard (1923-2015)has gained wide-ranging recognition, yet its development has received less attention. This vol……続きを見る

PRAISE: "Ernest Hemingway considered himself a writer first and foremost. For him, the word needed no epithet: not American, not Catholic, not contemporary, although he was proudly all those things.……続きを見る

Das Dokument "Amoris laetitia" wurde in der Rezeption erheblich unterbewertet. Dabei handelt es sich um ein Dokument, das weit über die Ehe- und Familienpastoral hinausweist. Der erfahrene Pastoralt……続きを見る

Jan Hus kritisiert das Machtstreben und die Habgier der Kirche seiner Zeit; er stellt Christus über das Papsttum. Beim Konzil von Konstanz wird seine Lehre verurteilt, 1415 wird er als Ketzer verbra……続きを見る

A collection of articles published over a period of 35 years on canonical procedural law. 続きを見る

Tracing the development of social reform movements among American Catholics from 1880 to 1925, Deirdre Moloney reveals how Catholic gender ideologies, emerging middle-class values, and ethnic identi……続きを見る

American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining ……続きを見る

With the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the Roman Catholic Church for the first time took a positive stance on modernity. Its impact on the thought, worship, and actions of Catholics worldwide wa……続きを見る

First Communion is generally understood as a rite of passage in which seven- and eight-year-old Catholic children transform from baptized participants in the Church to members of the body of Christ,……続きを見る

For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. The Church in America, historians insist, forged an “American ……続きを見る

How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embraced as the patron saint of animals, beneficently pre……続きを見る

A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty’s Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in develo……続きを見る

In 1963, as Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique appeared and civil rights activists marched on Washington, a separate but related social movement emerged among American Catholics, says Mary Henold. Th……続きを見る

One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884–1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin. Four years later……続きを見る

Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In Across God's Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sist……続きを見る

The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or “short course in Christianity,” founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants a……続きを見る

More than a million tourists visit religious landmarks in San Antonio, Texas, each year, observing and sometimes participating in religious activities there. The San Antonio Missions National Histor……続きを見る

'Gripping ... An exquisite conversation between two people who know each other, like each other, and have mutual respect for one another' - Catholic Times Since resigning from the papacy in 2013, th……続きを見る

This first-ever interdisciplinary study of woman as prophet shows that, in these troubling times, ordinary womenーespecially Christian womenーneed to function as prophets by proclaiming, in word and……続きを見る

“Martin’s final word is as Jungian as it is Catholic: God does not want us to be Mother Teresa or Dorothy Day. God wants us to be most fully ourselves.” ーWashington Post Book World WITTY, WRYLY HON……続きを見る

Founded in Baltimore in 1828 by a French Sulpician priest and a mulatto Caribbean immigrant, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African American Roman Catholic sisterhood in……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century America was rife with Protestant-fueled anti-Catholicism. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez reveals how Protestants nevertheless became surprisingly and deeply fascinated with the Virgin Ma……続きを見る

Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by–product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology a……続きを見る

Experienţele înşirate de-a lungul celor aproximativ 250 de pagini sunt trăirile omului de rând. În ele se pot regăsi deopotrivă tinerii care descoperă cu surprindere că până mai ieri nu-i atrăgea ni……続きを見る

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Once we have encountered the Lord Jesus, how do we keep growing in Christ? How do we let the Lord mold us and make us into missionary disciples capable of spreading the gospel? Instead of just tryin……続きを見る

Première confession d'un membre de l'Opus Dei. Un pouvoir secret au sein de l'Église, une nébuleuse énigmatique qui intrigue et inquiète : qu'est-ce que l'Opus Dei et qui se cache derrière son fonda……続きを見る

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the nature of Catholicism in the contemporary Philippines. It shows how Catholicism is apparently flourishing, with good attendance at Sunda……続きを見る

Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago’s mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty ye……続きを見る