Colleen M. Griffith & Hosffman Ospino, co-editors

A collection of essays by faculty of Boston College and the BC School of Theology and Ministry on renewal in theological education, a change in approach from the predominance of rational and abstract reasoning for the sake of cognitive knowledge abo...

The Desire and Search for Truth

Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ & Christopher Graney 

The science/faith discussion is often hindered by a fundamental misunderstanding of the role and function of science. This misunderstand was made most evident, with tragic consequences, during the recent pandemic. The ways that science has gone wron...

Proceedings of the Symposium Sponsored by Center for Research

edited by Cardinal Marc Ouellet

The Symposium for a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood, held at the Vatican from February 17 to 19, 2022, inaugurated a new phase of theological and pastoral reflection in the context of contemporary questions regarding the ministry of priests a...

Twelve Key Themes for Teaching & Preaching

Teresa Pirola

Catholic-Jewish Relations: Twelve Key Themes for Teaching & Preaching offers a road map for busy people—teachers, parents, clergy, parishioners—to become acquainted with the main themes and documents that have emerged through the Catholic Church's e...

How a Modern Reading of the Bible Challenges Christians the Church

Raymond E. Brown Revised and updated by Ronald D. Witherup, PSS

"The word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of the soul, discerning the thoughts of the heart.""So proclaims the Letter of the Hebrews. Yet for many persons biblical word of God is less a sharp s...

Leaving Night

Luca Badetti

Night can be an experience of both disorientation and loss, but also of new life and direction. Through reflections that are sensitive to the psychological and spiritual needs of the human person as well as relevant stories, this book invites reader...

A Synodal Way of Proceeding

Serena Noceti

"To walk together is the constitutive way of the Church; the figure that enables us to interpret reality with the eyes and heart of God; the condition for following the Lord Jesus and being servants of life in this wounded time."—Pope Francis"Today,...

The Justice and Mercy of God

Katherine M. Hayes

The books of Amos and Hosea witness to the breakdown of the northern kingdom of Israel as a manifestation of the justice of God. At the same time, these prophetic traditions reveal facets of divine justice that interweave with divine mercy. Despite ...

edited by Sarah Kohles, OSF

Creating Spaces for Women in the Catholic Church presents the struggle of theologically educated lay women with the Catholic Church. The author, a Catholic sister, shares the same struggle but enjoys an incredible network of communal, ministerial, f...

Brendan Daly

This book on penal law explains the main topics of penal law, with cases and examples of its implementation, using the changed text of Book 6 of the Code of Canon Law that will come into effect on December 8, 2021.Pope Francis has revised Book 6 of ...

A Lived Experience

Gerald O'Collins, SJ

The book follows the structure of the Spiritual Exercises, commenting on major themes in what Ignatius calls the First Week, the Second Week, the Third Week, and the Fourth Week, ending with the Contemplation for Attaining Love. It engages the audie...

Brendan Daly

This book on penal law explains the main topics of penal law, with cases and examples of its implementation, using the changed text of Book 6 of the Code of Canon Law that will come into effect on December 8, 2021.Pope Francis has revised Book 6 of ...

God Reconsidered

Bernard P. Prusak

Freedom and Possibility considers the ongoing adventure of God acting through the randomness and chance of the evolutionary process, whereby matter became life and life became self-conscious spirit with freedom. God's creation of freedom has been pi...

Kenneth Steven

Designed for an adult to read to young children, Praying the Lord's Prayer with Children explains each phrase of this important prayer. The illustrations bring the text to life; the description of each phrase is engaging, and the author's explanatio...

From the Mystery of Existence to the New Creation

Harvey D. Egan, SJ

Rethinking Catholic Theology: From The Mystery of Existence to the New Creation provides readers with an intelligent, informed, critical grasp of at least the central truths of the Catholic/Christian tradition. It aims to help readers to rethink mor...

Shakespeare as Therapist & Spiritual Guide

David Richo

Richo has chosen twenty-three components of humanness, each a topic of a chapter. He begins each chapter with a short section about the topic as it is described in psychology or spirituality. Then he presents quotations from Shakespeare on that them...

Learning How to Make Wise Choices

Nikolaas Sintobin, SJ

"How does one communicate the wealth of meaning behind key terms such as consolation and inner motions? Trust Your Feelings shares the fruits of the rediscovery of Ignatian spirituality beyond the confines of the academia to reach out to all people ...

Edited by Roberta LaVorne

This spiral-bound desk calendar shows the designated Bible Reading for the day, feasts and saints' days, rubrics and chronological days in a handsome week-at-a-glance format.

Edited by Roberta LaVorne

Fingertip guide to the designated Bible reading for the day, plus feast and saints' days. Calendar format shows one full week at a glance.

Global Hungers and Feminist Biblical Interpretation

Barbara E. Reid

In the 2021 Madeleva Lecture, Barbara Reid, Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and prominent feminist biblical scholar, draws out the metaphor of Wisdom as a feminine figure in the scriptures.Wisdom is personified in the Bible as a woman in...

God, Mystery, and the Spiritual

Thomas P. Rausch, SJ

"How do we preach the gospel today when so many no longer accept the old narratives? They no longer walk with us; so many have joined the 'nones.' How do we tell the Christian story? We can't simply fall into a biblical literalism, which makes littl...

God, Mystery, and the Spiritual

Thomas P. Rausch, SJ

"How do we preach the gospel today when so many no longer accept the old narratives? They no longer walk with us; so many have joined the 'nones.' How do we tell the Christian story? We can't simply fall into a biblical literalism, which makes littl...

A Social and Spiritual History

Jean Luc Enyegue, SJ

"The twenty-first-century Jesuits and their partners in mission are no longer just inheritors of a venerable tradition; they are fervent architects of vibrant religious and social tales of peoples, events, and places that matter to the understanding...

Patrick Kelly, SJ, PhD

Play, Sport, and Spirit retrieves a much needed ‘play ethic' from Catholic cultural and theological sources and brings this into dialogue with evolutionary theory, contemporary philosophy and psychology to illuminate the human and spiritual meaning ...

Navigating the Psychological Challenges of Spirituality

Robert J. Wicks

Robert Wick's latest book presents a discussion of the natural encounters all of us can expect on the journey toward a deeper relationship with the truth about ourselves, others, and God. This includes the search for imago Dei, what to expect in tra...