Catholic Almanac's Guide to the Church

Catholic Almanac's Guide to the Church

Author: Matthew Bunson

Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor

Published: 2001-10-31

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1612781756

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Your 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.


Catholic Almanac

Catholic Almanac

Author: Matthew Bunson

Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9781931709286

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This latest edition includes important events of the last year, Catholic Web sites, and a concise outline of Church history.


Sacred Threads

Sacred Threads

Author: Katharine Massam

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780868401836

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Three sections explore the complex lives of ordinary people who continually made choices about the way they expressed their faith. Part one begins with a brief survey of the context of lay Catholics in Adelaide and Perth between 1922 and 1962, considering the place of Catholics in wider society and


OurSundayVistor's Catholic Almanac

OurSundayVistor's Catholic Almanac

Author: Matthew Bunson

Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9781592763344

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The 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!


City of Quartz

City of Quartz

Author: Mike Davis

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2006-09-17

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1844675688

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This 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.


Making Saints

Making Saints

Author: Kenneth L. Woodward

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1439143951

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From 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.