Catholic Almanac, 1989
Author: Felician A. Foy
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Published: 1988-11
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780879732592
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Author: Felician A. Foy
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Published: 1988-11
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780879732592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Bunson
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Published: 2001-10-31
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 1612781756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYour Concise Guide to All Things Catholic No matter what you want to know about the Catholic Church, you'll find the answer in this one-volume guide. From the composition of the Curia to contemporary saints, from major doctrines to the Third Secret of Fatima, if it's part of the Catholic world, it's here.
Author: Felician A. Foy
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780879732639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Bunson
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9781931709286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis latest edition includes important events of the last year, Catholic Web sites, and a concise outline of Church history.
Author: Matthew Bunson
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Published: 2007-10
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9781592763344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe absolute best source for trustworthy, accurate, up-to-date information!Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Almanac remains the only annual, comprehensive guide to the Catholic Church. It is the essential one-volume reference work for researchers, homilists, writers, media professionals, students, and teachers.Published for more than one hundred years, this is the proven resource that offers solid, orthodox Catholic teaching and information. Its in-depth index makes finding specific, exact information easy.Archbishop John P. Foley, President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications at the Vatican, has called the Catholic Almanac an annual masterpiece!
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 986
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2006-09-17
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 1844675688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker) No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs L.A.’s shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West—a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city’s current status.
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 1458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth L. Woodward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 1439143951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom inside the Vatican, the book that became a modern classic on sainthood in the Catholic Church. Working from church documents, Kenneth Woodward shows how saint-makers decide who is worthy of the church's highest honor. He describes the investigations into lives of candidates, explains how claims for miracles are approved or rejected, and reveals the role politics -- papal and secular -- plays in the ultimate decision. From his examination of such controversial candidates as Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador and Edith Stein, a Jewish philosopher who became a nun and was gassed at Auschwitz, to his insights into the changes Pope John Paul II has instituted, Woodward opens the door on a 2,000-year-old tradition.
Author: Larry A. Witham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-07-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0190290439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe clergy today faces mounting challenges in an increasingly secular world, where declining prestige makes it more difficult to attract the best and the brightest young Americans to the ministry. As Christian churches dramatically adapt to modern changes, some are asking whether there is a clergy crisis as well. Whatever the future of the clergy, the fate of millions of churchgoers also will be at stake. In Who Shall Lead Them?, prizewinning journalist Larry Witham takes the pulse of both the Protestant and Catholic ministry in America and provides a mixed diagnosis of the calling's health. Drawing on dozens of interviews with clergy, seminarians and laity, and using newly available survey data including the 2000 Census, Witham reveals the trends in a variety of traditions. While evangelicals are finding innovative paths to ministry, the Catholic priesthood faces a severe shortage. In mainline Protestantism, ministry as a second career has become a prominent feature. Ordination ages in the Episcopal and United Methodist churches average in the 40s today. The quest by female clergy to lead from the pulpit, meanwhile, has hit a "stained glass ceiling" as churches still prefer a man as the principal minister. While deeply motivated by the mystery of their "call" to ministry, America's priests, pastors, and ministers are reassessing their roles in a world of new debates on leadership, morality, and the powers of the mass media. Who Shall Lead Them? offers a valuable snapshot of this contemporary clergy drama. It will be required reading for everyone concerned about the rapidly shifting ground of our churches and the health of religion in America.