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by Joseph F. Girzone
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The author of the bestselling Joshua series and other popular inspirational books chronicles his own spiritual journey and describes with stunning honesty the difficult decisions he made along the way.
Joseph Girzone has attracted a tremendous following with his series of novels that imagine Jesus...
The Essential Pope Benedict XVI
His Central Writings and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On April 24, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, the twenty-first-century successor of the Apostle Peter and the spiritual leader of more than one billion Roman Catholics. Who is this complex man whose office grants him sole charge of the world's largest religion? How will...
The Promise of Francis
The Man, the Pope, and the Challenge of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
With more than four decades of firsthand experience reporting from Vatican City, David Willey explores the religious and personal background of Pope Francis and his ability to fulfill the promises of reform made during the first two years of his papacy.
Sex crimes and cover-ups, financial scandal,...
House Calls and Hitching Posts
Stories From Dr. Elton Lehman's Career Among The Amish
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Medical technology meets rural values of simplicity, home health remedies, and unwavering faith in divine providence when a country-boy-turned-country-doctor returns to his roots. House Calls and Hitching Posts is a sometimes humorous and often intimate account of Dr. Elton Lehman's 36 years practicing...
The End and the Beginning
Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
“As March gave way to April in the spring of 2005 and the world kept vigil outside the apostolic palace in Rome, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, then drawing to a poignant end, was already being described as one of the most consequential in two millennia of Christian history.”
With these...
The Pope
Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour comes the fascinating and revealing tale of an unprecedented transfer of power, and of two very different men - who both happen to live in the Vatican. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANTHONY HOPKINS...
Katharine Drexel
The Riches-to-Rags Life Story of an American Catholic Saint
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
On October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Katharine Drexel (1858–1955) to be a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Only the second American-born Catholic saint in history, Drexel founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891 and established more than sixty Blessed Sacrament missions...
The Sound of Gravel
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
An instant New York Times bestseller
“A haunting, harrowing testament to survival." — People Magazine
“An addictive chronicle of a polygamist community.” — New York Magazine
“Unforgettable” — Entertainment Weekly
The thirty-ninth of her father’s forty-two...
by James Martin,SJ
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year Winner of a Christopher Award Winner of a Catholic Press Association Book AwardMeet some surprising friends of God in this warm and wonderful memoirJames Martin has led an entirely modern life: from a lukewarm Catholic childhood, to an education at the...
Mother Teresa (Revised Edition)
An Authorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was the founder of the Missionaries ofCharity and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, but her story is so much moreremarkable. From her childhood in the Balkans to her work in India, from attendingthe victims of war-torn Beirut to pleading with George Bush and Saddam Husseinto...
The Witness Wore Red
The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed...
by Joe Keim
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In My People, the Amish, Joe Keim paints a detailed picture of life behind the bonnets and buggies. More than a biography, this is an honest look at the heart-warming traditions that mingle with the deep-rooted legalism of the Amish community in Ashland, Ohio.
Born, raised, and baptized in...
Triumph
Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The author of The New York Times bestseller Escape returns with a moving and inspirational tale of her life after she heroically fled the cult she’d been raised in, her hard-won new identity and happiness, and her determination to win justice for the crimes committed against her family.
In...
Cult Insanity
A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
Life for Irene Spencer was a series of devastating disappointments and hardships. Irene's first book, Shattered Dreams, is the staggering chronicle of herstruggle to provide for her children in abject poverty and feelings of abandonment each time her husband left to be with one of his other wives....