Author: Jeffrey LaBelle
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 0809146118
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Being Catholic in a Changing World discusses the key issues surrounding Catholics in contemporary society. "Can I disagree with the Church and still remain a good Catholic?" and "What does it mean to be a Catholic in the post-9/11 world?" are some of the questions posed in this book. Using a historical rather than merely doctrinal approach, the authors follow the advice of Pope John XXIII that history is one of the most important teachers in life. They present comprehensive historical background ranging from ancient times to relatively recent events, such as the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. The result is a significant and relevant work that is sure to engage, help, and inspire those looking for peace and meaning in today's confusing world. Book jacket.
Author: Dennis M. Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781599828626
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Church, and religion more broadly, exist within the context of our life stories. That's why this readable and engaging introduction to Catholicism deftly combines personal narrative with rich theology and current scholarship. Dennis Doyle's The Catholic Church in a Changing World: A Vatican II Inspired Approach invites readers to consider their own beliefs while studying the contemporary teachings of the Catholic Church. Organized around two central documents of Vatican II, Lumen gentium and Gaudium et spes, the text presents contemporary theological and ecclesiological ideas with nuance, clarity, and fairness, especially regarding issues that might be polarizing. With short chapters, sidebars, recommendations for further reading, and an ecumenical and inclusive voice, The Catholic Church in a Changing World updates a proven and popular text to meet the needs of the modern classroom.
Author: Juliet Mousseau
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0814645208
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Written by a diverse group of younger women religious from North America, In Our Own Words offers a collection of essays on issues central to apostolic religious life today. The thirteen authors represent different congregations, charisms, ministries, and histories. The topics and concerns that shape these chapters emerged naturally through a collaborative process of prayer and conversation. Essays focus on the vows and community life, individual identity and congregational charisms, and leadership among younger members leading into the future. The authors hope these chapters may form a springboard for further conversation on religious life, inviting others to share their experiences of religious life in today's world.
Author: Fr Jonathan Munn OblOSB
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244462127
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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It may surprise you to learn that there is such thing as an Anglican Catholic Church. We might not be very noticeable, especially in the United Kingdom, but the Anglican Catholic Church exists in every inhabited continent of the world and is growing. This is the propose of this essay in which we seek to establish the integrity of Anglican Catholic belief. We state our principles of how we discern what Christian Doctrine is, and then use these principles to demonstrate what we believe the Church to be. You will find the text punctuated not only with texts from the Bible but also from the Church Fathers whose teachings from Holy Scripture demonstrate how it is to be interpreted. These texts are to give an idea for why we believe what we do and, while not being completely exhaustive, aim to present you with the fact that what we believe has always had a basis in History. Whatever your conclusions, whether you agree with this or not, we hope that you will find this book informative and that it encourages you to further dialogue and fellowship with us. --
Author: Matthew Kelly
Publisher: Blue Sparrow
ISBN: 9781937509668
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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As human beings we are constantly engaging and disengaging in everything we do. We engage and disengage at work, in marriage, as parents, in our quest for health and well-being, in personal finances, environmentally, politically, and, of course, we engage or disengage spiritually. If you walk into any Catholic church next Sunday and look around, you will discover that some people are highly engaged, others are massively disengaged, and the majority are somewhere in between. Why? What is the difference between highly engaged Catholics and disengaged Catholics? Answering this question is essential to the future of the Catholic Church. If we truly want to engage Catholics and reinvigorate parish life, we must first discover what drives engagement among Catholics. Matthew Kelly explores this question in his groundbreaking new book, and the simplicity of what he discovers will amaze you. Four things make the difference between highly engaged Catholics and disengaged Catholics: the four signs of a Dynamic Catholic. Whether you are ready to let God take your spiritual life to the next level or want to help reinvigorate your parish, The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic promises to take you on a journey that will help you live out the genius of Catholicism in your everyday life.
Author: Michael Leach
Publisher: Loyola Press
ISBN: 0829435646
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Why Stay Catholic? is a lively, timely book about the "good stuff" within the Catholic Church today.
Author: Faggioli, Massimo
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608338320
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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"A historical analysis of the ways in which Francis's papacy is unusual and thus open to greater possibilities than many of his predecessors"--
Author: Kerry Kennedy
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307346854
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Some of America’s most extraordinary celebrities, artists, and thinkers reveal what they believe Catholicism is–and what it should be In this illuminating collection that redefines an ancient institution in the most contemporary of terms, human-rights activist Kerry Kennedy asks thirty-seven American Catholics to speak candidly about their own faith–whether lost, recovered, or deepened–and about their feelings regarding the way the Church hierarchy is moving forward. “Has something to say to almost every Catholic, or even one-time Catholic, who cracks open its pages. . . . One finishes the book feeling grateful for [Kennedy’s] subjects’ honesty and moved in a hundred different ways by what they reveal of their aspirations and struggles.”–National Catholic Reporter “Revealing . . . offers an unusually intimate view of how much being raised Catholic shapes the identity of many prominent Americans, but also how much tension many feel with the institutional church.”–Boston Globe
Author: John Thomas Noonan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Noonan's analysis of the development in Catholic moral teaching on usury, contraception, religious freedom, slave-holding, and divorce.
Author: Ross Douthat
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501146939
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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A New York Times columnist and one of America’s leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis’s efforts to change the church he governs in a book that is “must reading for every Christian who cares about the fate of the West and the future of global Christianity” (Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option). Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis’s stewardship of the Church, while perceived as a revelation by many, has provoked division throughout the world. “If a conclave were to be held today,” one Roman source told The New Yorker, “Francis would be lucky to get ten votes.” In his “concise, rhetorically agile…adroit, perceptive, gripping account (The New York Times Book Review), Ross Douthat explains why the particular debate Francis has opened—over communion for the divorced and the remarried—is so dangerous: How it cuts to the heart of the larger argument over how Christianity should respond to the sexual revolution and modernity itself, how it promises or threatens to separate the church from its own deep past, and how it divides Catholicism along geographical and cultural lines. Douthat argues that the Francis era is a crucial experiment for all of Western civilization, which is facing resurgent external enemies (from ISIS to Putin) even as it struggles with its own internal divisions, its decadence, and self-doubt. Whether Francis or his critics are right won’t just determine whether he ends up as a hero or a tragic figure for Catholics. It will determine whether he’s a hero, or a gambler who’s betraying both his church and his civilization into the hands of its enemies. “A balanced look at the struggle for the future of Catholicism…To Change the Church is a fascinating look at the church under Pope Francis” (Kirkus Reviews). Engaging and provocative, this is “a pot-boiler of a history that examines a growing ecclesial crisis” (Washington Independent Review of Books).
