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Charles Rice, professor of the jurisprudence of St. Thomas Aquinas for the last twenty years at Notre Dame Law School, presents a very readable book on the natural law as seen through the teachings of Aquinas and their foundations in reason and Revelation. Reflecting on the most persistent questions asked by his students over the years, Rice shows ...
Patrick Madrid
Jul 12, 2021This book is for anyone who has ever wept and wondered, "Why?" Peter Kreeft observes that our world is full of billions of normal lives that have been touched by apparently pointless and random suffering. This account of a real and honest personal quest is both engaging and convincing. Written from a deep well of wisdom derived from experience and ...
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Apr 28, 2021Perhaps no modern-day leader of the Church has sparked as much controversy as Pope Pius XII, the Bishop of Rome during World War II.Some claim that he was indifferent to Nazi atrocities and even accuse him of being an anti-Semite Nazi sympathizer.Others call him a lonely voice of sanity in an insane world and consider him one of the true saints of ...
Patrick Madrid
Mar 22, 2021Michael O'Brien presents a thrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of time. It explores the state of the modern world, and the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary religious scene, by taking his central character, Father Elijah Schafer, a Carmelite priest, on a secret mission for the Vatican w...
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Dec 31, 2020Max Sculley's definitive critique of Yoga, Tai Chi and Reiki comes with a timely warning that despite these practices' surface appeal for helping fitness, relaxation and health, they are closely linked to underlying Eastern philosophies that are incompatible with Christianity. Vatican documents, including one authored by the present Pope when he wa...
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Dec 03, 2020Here is a story of the Lenape Indians who lived in what is now New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. It describes their culture, crafts, and language as no other book has done. Hunters, fishers, artisans of flint and skins and basketry, tellers of traditional tales, dwellers in a region of hills and barrens, of rivers and forests, they had developed...
Patrick Madrid
Nov 19, 2020The Hidden Manna has become a classic on Eucharistic teaching. Now in a second edition, accompanied by a new introduction by Fr. Kenneth Baker, a new preface from the author, new material from John Paul II, and the original foreword by Cardinal John O'Connor, this in-depth study lets the breadth and richness of the Church's Tradition speak for itse...
Patrick Madrid
Feb 18, 2020
The Dogma of Hell
Illustrated by Facts Taken From Profane and Sacred History
The Dogma of Hell explores the basic Catholic doctrine on Hell, purposefully awakening in the reader a profound realization of its reality and eternity of horrors. Eminent French theologian Fr F X Schouppe, SJ, author of Purgatory Explained by the Lives and Legends of the Saints, has written here a similar but much smaller book. In short chapters, ...
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Dec 30, 2019A contemporary treatment of the traditional theme of chastity that shows that a mature chastity can be loving, peaceful and fulfilled....
Patrick Madrid
Nov 20, 2019
The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur
The Woman Whose Goodness Changed Her Husband from Atheist to Priest
This inspiring book gives you a splendid example of how to live as a Christian in a secular environment that can be indifferent or hostile to your Faith. For Elisabeth Leseur had two great loves: God, and her husband Felix. Felix loved Elisabeth as well; yet to their mutual sorrow, he couldn't share the life of the Spirit that Elisabeth cherished. ...
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Sep 04, 2019Seventy now-adult children of divorce give their candid and often heart-wrenching answers to eight questions (arranged in eight chapters, by question), including: What were the main effects of your parents' divorce on your life? What do you say to those who claim that "children are resilient" and "children are happy when their parents are happy"? W...
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Feb 15, 2019Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed
There We Stood, Here We Stand by Timothy Drake
When Is Marriage Null? by Paolo Bianchi
Where We Got the Bible by Reverend Henry G. Graham
Masonry Unmasked by John Salza
Why I Don't Call Myself Gay by Daniel Mattson
The Truth about Saint Joseph by Fr. Maurice Meschler
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Purgatory by Rev. Fr. F. X. Shouppe S. J.
God or Nothing by Cardinal Robert Sarah