Catholicism

You Can Get There from Here
Good News for Bad Days: Living a Soulful Life
by Father Paul Keenan
When it comes to bad days in our lives; some seem to have more of them than others. Instead of being mere annoyances or obstacles, our bad days can be the door to discovering a depth and a purpose to our lives far beyond what we may have imagined.

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

The Final Days of John Paul II
The Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope Was Elected and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church
by John L. Allen, Jr.
The story of Pope John Paul II's last days, the behind-the-scenes dynamics within the College of Cardinals that led to the choice of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, and where the new pope is likely to lead the Catholic Church.

A Quick Overview of Opus Dei
Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church
by John L. Allen, Jr.
Journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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,'

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.

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

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 ...

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