A Collection of Treasured Scripture, Poetry and Prose
This companion volume to The Funeral Celebrants Handbook is a collection of inspiring poems, prose and prayers to assist with composing and conducting meaningful and moving farewell services for loved ones.
In 1968, Pope Paul VI published Humanae vitae, the encyclical that reaffirmed the Catholic Church's continued opposition to the use of any form of artificial contraception. The author outlines the Church's position against artificial contraception as principally rooted in three biblical commandments.
Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a collection of essays and scripture-study passages from the 2014 Building Bridges seminar that explores questions Christians and Muslims have often put to each other on the ideas of sin, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
Social Justice from Outside the Walls: Catholic Women in Memphis, 1950-1970 by Ann Youngblood Mulhearn examines the intersections of faith, race, and gender within the social justice movements in twentieth-century Memphis, Tennessee. Weaving together the biographies of six Catholic women and drawing upon the activists' own published writing and ......
The Soul, Lover of God unites the 17th century poetry and art of two famous European authors, Madame Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon and Jesuit priest Herman Hugo. This book showcases the growing relationship between Anima, the soul, and Divine Love in the emblems' first introduction to the English-speaking world.
This book examines the letters and treatises of St. Cyprian of Carthage in order to assess episcopal cooperation in the third century. It determines the scope, limits, and applications of collegial authority as it developed in the pre-conciliar era.
With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first eyewitness accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume presents a testimony of one man's courage, and a nation's struggle for resistance against overwhelming oppression.
Karski was a brilliant young diplomat when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler's invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. This is a memoir of World War II and the Holocaust.
