Informative... Reliable... Accessible First published more than a quarter century ago, The Catholic Bible: Personal Study Edition has long served readers eager for a reliable, accessible guide to lead them into the biblical text. Thumb-indexed for convenience, this third edition is fully revised and augmented with new study aids suchas in-text essays on topics that enhance one's reading of the text. The Reading Guides that come before the text of the New American Bible Revised Edition -- the translation used in the great majority of U.S. Catholic parishes -- provide a concise, accessible overview of each individual book ofthe Bible, leading readers through the backgrounds, characters, and messages of all the books and their implications for our lives today. Lay people -- individuals or members of study groups -- students, and general readers will all find essential information in a form that is easy to use andorganized for quick reference.
"A cracking good story with a wonderful cast of rogues, ruffians and some remarkably holy and sensible people."?????? --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewBefore the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 184
"Betrayed" can have this impact on the reader's life because it presents three main elements: 1) the doctrinal/catechetical truths left with the Apostles by Christ Himself, 2) the history of the Catho
Two people -- Paul, an American, and Latika, an Indian -- fall in love and get married in this true East meets-West story entitled "A Catholic Marries a Hindu." From language and attitudes to cuisine
When sexual scandals rocked the American Catholic Church, many observers and faithful alike called on the church to abandon its tenets on the vocation of the priesthood and sexuality outside marriage-
During the 1930s, the Catholic Church in the US was engaged in a metaphorical "war" against the increasingly modern and secular values of the American public. Alexander McGregor offers a detailed acco
The New American Bible revised edition is more than a mere Bible translation. Authorized by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, th
Stephen Blake comes from a long line of Galway Blakes, a family famous in history - or infamous - for jettisoning its Catholic roots to save their land from the English. As a young man he was always h
Distinguished historian Robert Emmett Curran presents an informedand balanced study of the American Catholic Church's experience in itstwo most important regions in the nineteenth and twentieth centur
Editors Appleby and Cummings (the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, the University of Notre Dame) present work reviewing the 20th century through an American Catholic lens and revea
This book depicts the significant role played by American Catholic Women Religious in the broader narratives of modern American history and the history of the Catholic Church. The book is a guide to f
"O'Connell presents an excellent biography of the first archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, who rose from poverty to become an internationally known clerical figure and friend of presidents. .
