Reflections of Gratitude and Praise for the Priesthood

Pope Francis

This series of reflections on the meaning and ministry of the priesthood is based on the pope’s Holy Thursday Chrism Mass homilies delivered from March 2013 to the present. In addition, it includes the pope’s letter to priests on the occasion of the...

The Journey to a Healthier and Happier Life

Peter M. Kalellis

When we feel empty, alienated, or overwhelmed, we don’t usually listen to what our soul is saying to us. It is panting; parched for a drink of God’s love and life—but we’ve learned to drown our thirst for God with distractions such as television, sh...

Phyllis Zagano

Women: Icons of Christ traces the history of ministry by women, especially those ordained as deacons. History teaches that women ministered in baptism, catechesis, altar service, spiritual direction, and confession, and anointed the sick, either as ...

Phyllis Zagano

Women: Icons of Christ traces the history of ministry by women, especially those ordained as deacons. The author demonstrates how women were removed from leadership, prevented from using their voices, and eliminated from official ministries in the l...

Therese Johnson Borchard

How can any of us, but especially children, know God? Using the phrase from the Psalm as a jumping-off point "Taste and see the goodness of the Lord" this color-drenched book answers the question with a celebration of the five senses. Full-color ill...

Creating a Place God Can Call Home

Robert J. Wicks

Heartstorming provides a point of entry to the contemplative life for anyone who will become or remain open to the movements of God in their daily life. The author’s 45 field notes show what can result if the reader takes a journey of growth in bein...

A Monastic Journey through Lent

The Benedictine Monks of Münsterschwarzach Abbey

The way to yourself, to your own center is seldom straightforward and often full of surprises. Finding Your Treasure helps us discover something new and perhaps forgotten. For example, answers to the questions: What do I really want? What sustains m...

The Call to Holiness and Mission

Kevin W. Irwin

Pope Francis and the Liturgy summarizes, analyzes, and assesses the ways Pope Francis understands the liturgy both in relation to the initiatives and teachings of his predecessors, and in particular through his specific contributions, both in word a...

The Call to Holiness and Mission

Kevin W. Irwin

Pope Francis and the Liturgy summarizes, analyzes, and assesses the ways Pope Francis understands the liturgy both in relation to the initiatives and teachings of his predecessors, and in particular through his specific contributions, both in word a...

The Dorothy Day Story

A Film by Martin Doblmeir

Revolution of the Heart is a new documentary on one of the most extraordinary and courageous women in American history, one who is being considered for sainthood, Dorothy Day. Realist and radical, Day was both a typical grandmother and a self-descri...

Meditations on the Stations of the Cross

Ralph Wright, OSB

Besides being a meditation on the Way of the Cross this book reminds the reader that, in Jesus, our God, who as John’s First Letter reminds us, “is love,” has revealed his complete, personal, and total love for each person that he has created. Our f...

Historical and Theological Perspectives

James J. Bacik; foreword by Martin Marty

Pope Francis and His Critics offers a broad assessment of Francis and his pontificate, keeping in mind important criticisms mounted by his detractors. An opening chapter summarizes a representative sampling of five-year evaluations of the Francis pa...

Isaac Thomas Hecker; edited and introduced by Paul Robichaud, CSP

Isaac Hecker (1819–1888) was a spiritual seeker from his early days. In 1845 he converted to Catholicism, then joined the Redemptorists before founding the Paulist Fathers with a band of colleagues. While at seminary he began keeping notebooks of sp...

Isaac Thomas Hecker; edited and introduced by Paul Robichaud, CSP

Isaac Hecker (1819–1888) was a spiritual seeker from his early days. In 1845 he converted to Catholicism, then joined the Redemptorists before founding the Paulist Fathers with a band of colleagues. While at seminary he began keeping notebooks of sp...

The Message of Jesus for an Evolutionary World

Louis M. Savary

Like St. Paul, Teilhard wrote much about the risen Lord and the mystical body of Christ and very little about the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Nevertheless, for Teilhard, “the mystical Christ, has neither meaning nor value in our eyes ex...

100 Works Not to be Missed

Musei Vaticani

Here is an extraordinary illustrated art book that showcases the one hundred masterpieces that present the legacy of culture, history, and beauty that the Roman pontiffs have collected and guarded for centuries.The Vatican Museums are a complex of d...

3rd Edition - Revised and Updated

James A. Coriden

The third edition of An Introduction to Canon Law retains the comprehensiveness of the previous two editions while updating the reader on the field, especially new resources and current decisions and changes. It now includes "A Canonical Constitutio...

3rd Edition - Revised and Updated

James A. Coriden

The third edition of An Introduction to Canon Law retains the comprehensiveness of the previous two editions while updating the reader on the field, especially new resources and current decisions and changes. It now includes "A Canonical Constitutio...

A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

John Honner

Does God Like Being God? And Other Tricky Questions about God is a response to many requests made by Catholic teachers, catechists, and parents for help in answering the tricky and often highly intelligent questions that children and young people as...

A Guide for Teachers, Catechists, and Parents

John Honner

Does God Like Being God? And Other Tricky Questions about God is a response to many requests made by Catholic teachers, catechists, and parents for help in answering the tricky and often highly intelligent questions that children and young people as...

Seeing the Mother of Jesus with New Eyes

Thomas G. Casey, SJ

Catholicism in the Western world has moved from a situation where Mary and Marian devotion were simply taken for granted to a new situation where it now demands real effort to turn to Our Lady in any meaningful way. The Rosary used to play a big par...

Finding Common Ground

Walter Kasper

The apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia (2016) led to a broader and more profound understanding of the many current and pressing issues concerning marriage and family. The great majority of the people of God has enthusiastically welcomed this exho...

Jan Alkire

Sacred journeys do not happen alone. To have the fullness of life that Jesus said he came to bring us, we need companions. We need fellow travelers to walk with us as part of our relationship with God. I call this “spiritual companionship” and defin...

An Illustrated History of His Life and Legacy

Engelbert Grau, Raoul Manselli, and Serena Romano

This magnificent volume brings readers close to St. Francis of Assisi, the Franciscan community he founded, and the artistic revolution of Giotto, the great fourteenth-century Italian painter whose frescoes of Francis are now UNESCO World Heritage t...

Pasado, Presente, Futuro

Phyllis Zagano, Gary Macy, William T. Ditewig; prefacio por Susan A. Ross

The tremendous growth of the permanent order of deacon in the church carries with it lingering questions about women deacons. The church's evident need for more women in ministry demands careful exploration and evaluation of the historical roots, co...