Catholicism

One Miserable Life
Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
by Raymond Arroyo
In 1981, a simple nun, using merely her entrepreneurial instincts and $200, launched what would become the world's largest religious media empire in the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama, monastery.

Eternal Perspectives
Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality
by Raymond Arroyo
Are you unsure of your purpose in life? Stuck in the past and worried about the future? Hamstrung by fear, failure, or trials? Mother is here to help. For more than twenty-five years, Mother Angelica has dispensed spiritual wisdom and practical advice

Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois
by Anonymous
Every one knows that America is called the New World because, until the close of the 15th century, it was unknown to the other nations of the earth - at least it was then unknown to Europe. Until quite near the end of that century

Journey to Fatima
The Fatima Secret (Whitley Strieber's Hidden Agendas)
by Michael Hesemann
The truth about the vatican's most impenetrable secret, hidden for over eighty years! On May 13, 1917, three young shepherds witness a vision of the Virgin Mary and hear the Holy Mother reveal three prophecies ...

Change of Heart
Light Through the Crack: Life After Loss
by Sue Mosteller, CSJ.
Leonard Cohen once wrote in a song: 'There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in.' Combining revealing memoir and the inspirational stories of others, Sue Mosteller, the executrix of Henry Nouwen's literary estate and an active, well-known

Who or what is a Catholic?
The Reformation: A History
by Diarmaid MacCulloch
This Greek word has become one of the chief battlegrounds in western Latin Christianity, for it is used in different ways that outside observers of Christian foibles find thoroughly confusing.

History of the Rosary
The Rosary
by Garry Wills
In order to say the rosary, one does not need to know much if anything about the history of the practice. It was for a long time shrouded in legend. But it may help one's devotion to know what deep roots the practice has in the biblical, conciliar

Timely and Timeless
The Rosary
by Garry Wills
For Catholics who grew up before the Second Vatican Council, saying the rosary, privately or with others, was a regular part of our lives. But in recent years the rosary has come to be stigmatized, precisely, as 'preconciliar' - as theologically

I Saw a Saint at Sunset
John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father
by Peggy Noonan
It was early morning in the Vatican, July 2, 2003, a brilliant morning in the middle of the worst Roman heat wave in a century. The city was quiet, the streets soft with the heat.

On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius
Thirty Days
by Paul Mariani
By the term 'Spiritual Exercises' we mean every method of examination of conscience, meditation, contemplation, vocal or mental prayer, and other spiritual activities, such as will be mentioned later.

Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict
Benedict's Dharma
by Patrick Henry
The root meaning of the Latin and Greek words translated as 'rule' is trellis. Saint Benedict was not promulgating rules for living; he was establishing a framework on which a life can grow.

My Friendship With The Saint
Dark Night of the Soul
by Saint John of the Cross, Mirabai Starr
When I first encountered the sixteenth-century mystic John of the Cross, he was introduced to me as Spain's favorite poet and most confusing theologian. I loved him immediately. 'I've never had a student who really got John of the Cross,'

La Madre
The Prison Angel
by Mary Jordan, Kevin Sullivan
A riot rages inside La Mesa state penitentiary in Tijuana, Mexico. It's Halloween night, 1994, and the twenty-five hundred convicts locked inside one of the country's most violent and overcrowded prisons are struggling, as they do every day, to live one

Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
The Prison Angel
by Mary Jordan, Kevin Sullivan
In early 2002, we asked a young woman on Islas Marías, a prison in the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles off the Mexican coast, how she liked being an inmate there. She bubbled on about the beautiful ocean setting and the fresh air

The Pope
All the Pope's Men : The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
by John L. Allen, Jr.
One traditional way to understand what the Pope does would be to list his titles: His Holiness; Bishop of Rome; Vicar of Jesus Christ; Successor of St. Peter; Prince of the Apostles; Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church; Patriarch of the West; Servant

Behind Closed Doors
Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent
by Mary Laven
Venice in the late Renaissance was a city of fabulous wealth, reckless creativity, and growing social unrest. It was also a city of walls and secrets, ghettos and cloisters. In this captivating book, Cambridge historian Mary Laven uncovers the long-hidden

Father Geoghan
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
by The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
This groundbreaking book provides a detailed, devastating account of the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up that has left millions of American Catholics shocked, angry, and confused. Betrayal brings into sharp focus the scores of abusive priests

Thomas Aquinas
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion
by Anthony C. Thiselton, M.Th., Ph.D., D.D.
Born into an aristocratic family in the region of Naples, Thomas was educated first in a Benedictine monastery and then at the University of Naples (1239-44). He then became a Dominican friar, and from 1248 to 1254 studied under Albert the Great.

Chicago, October 15, 2003

From the author of the classic The Making of the Popes 1978 comes this singularly perceptive analysis of the events and political forces in the Roman Catholic Church that led to the selection of Pope Benedict XVI and what this choice means for Catholics

Before Orders
Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal
by David France
Based on hundreds of interviews, private correspondence, unpublished scientific probes and secret Vatican documents, and tens of thousands of pages of court records, David France shows how the church's institutional suspicion of human sexuality ironically