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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Here is a new permanent easy-to-use Sunday Missal that gives all
the Mass texts for a three-year cycle. A special feature of this
Edition is the very large type for the Readings and large bold
print for the peoples' responses.
Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, is one of the most studied but
least understood popes of the twentieth century while his
pontificate remains the most turbulent and controversial. Although
there is a general consensus that he faced serious problems during
his tenure-fascist aggression, the Second World War, the Nazi
genocide of the Jews, the march of communism, and the Cold
War-there is disagreement on his response to these developments.
Applauded by some as an "apostle for peace" for his attempt to
prevent the outbreak of war, he has been denounced by others as an
"advocate of appeasement" for this same effort. Praised by both
Christian and Jews for his "Crusade of Charity" during the war, he
was denounced by many for his "silence" during the Holocaust. These
conflicting interpretations, dubbed the Pius Wars, are often narrow
in focus, lack objectivity, and have shed more heat than light.
Written by one of the foremost historians of Pius XII, the present
biographical study, unlike the greater part of the vast and growing
historiography of Pope Pius XII, is a balanced and nonreactive
account of his life and times. Its focus is not on the pope's
silence during the Holocaust, though it does address the issue in a
historical and objective framework. This is a biography of the man
as well as the pope. It probes the roots of his traditionalism and
legalism, his approach to modernity and reformism in Church and
society, and the influences behind his policies and actions. This
book is the first biography of Eugenio Pacelli to appear in English
since the opening of the papers of the pontificate of Pius XI
(1922-1939), in which Pacelli served as nuncio to Germany and
secretary of state, along with the publication of the memories of
figures close to Papa Pacelli.
A man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border
country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It
is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a
lifetime of reading. Which sights, people, books, fictional
characters, turns of phrase and lines of verse will survive into
the twilight? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental
landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloguing his memories,
little knowing what secrets they will yield and where his `report'
will lead.Border Districts is a jewel of a farewell from one of the
greatest living writers of English prose. Winner of the Australian
2018 Prime Minister's Literary Award and shortlisted for the 2018
Miles Franklin Award, this is Murnane's first work to be published
in the UK in thirty years.
George Pell is the most recognisable face of the Australian
Catholic Church. He was the Ballarat boy with the film-star looks
who studied at Oxford and rose through the ranks to become the
Vatican's indispensable 'Treasurer'. As an outspoken defender of
church orthodoxy, 'Big George's' ascendancy within the clergy was
remarkable and seemingly unstoppable. The Royal Commission into
Institutional Responses to Child Abuse has brought to light
horrific stories about sexual abuse of the most vulnerable and
provoked public anger at the extent of the cover-up. George Pell
has always portrayed himself as the first man in the Church to
tackle the problem. But questions about what the Cardinal knew, and
when, have persisted. The nation's most prominent Catholic is now
the subject of a police investigation into allegations spanning
decades that he too abused children. Louise Milligan is the only
Australian journalist who has been privy to the most intimate
stories of complainants. She pieces together a series of disturbing
pictures of the Cardinal's knowledge and his actions, many of which
are being told here for the first time. Conspiracy or cover-up?
Cardinal uncovers uncomfortable truths about a culture of sexual
entitlement, abuse of trust and how ambition can silence evil.
In an age of tourism, the great challenge is to see ourselves at a
deeper level: the dimension of pilgrimage. Being a pilgrim might
involve a journey to distant places associated with God-revealing
events, but it has more to do with simply living day by day in a
God-attentive way. Jim Forest's book assists the reader to see
one's life as an opportunity for pilgrimage, whether in places as
familiar as your living room or walking the pilgrim path to
Santiago de Compostela. Drawing on the wisdom of the saints and his
own wide-ranging travels, Forest leads us to a range of "thin
places," including Iona, Jerusalem, the secret annex of Anne Frank,
the experience of illness, the practice of hospitality, and other
places and occasions where we may find ourselves surprised by
grace.
More than twenty-five years have passed since the publication in
1979 of "Brothers and Sisters to Us," the U.S. Bishops' statement
against racism, and during this time white Catholic theologians
have remained relatively silent on this topic. In this hard-hitting
study, prominent Roman Catholic theologians address white
priviletge and the way it contributes to racism. They maintain that
systems of white privilege are a significant factor in maintaining
evil systems of racism in our country and that most white
theologians and ethicists remain ignorant of their negative impact.
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