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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
Reflective, insightful, and useful, this enduring favorite
sucessfully integrates solid scriptual research with contemporary
psychological insights. All those interested in communications
skills and better relationships will find it useful.
Do you have a child who is into everything? Your energetic, bubbly
child is often the center of attention and sometimes in the middle
of trouble
Or perhaps you have a child who is just the opposite: quiet,
studious, and slow to warm up in social situations.
Art and Laraine Bennett provide an accessible synthesis of
classical wisdom, modern counseling, science, Catholic
spirituality, and wonderful storytelling to the four basic
temperaments that serve as the foundation of one's personality and
approach to life. This is the authors third book on the topic of
temperaments, sharing not only their professional expertise but
also their personal life experiences. They have been married for
thirty-four years and have four children one each of the four
temperament types
Documents from the major convent at Bruges shed fresh and
illuminating light on its life. The English Augustinian Canonesses
at Bruges kept records of daily life and key events in their
convent from its foundation in 1629. Living in exile, members of
the convent were well-aware of their importance to the survival of
English Catholicism for women. Keeping full records served to
maintain a reputation which would attract influential and wealthy
benefactors and well-qualified members; but the Bruges Chronicles
are far more than window-dressing. They introduce the reader to
members at every level, from impressive community leaders to
candidates who failed to live up to expectations and were tactfully
nudged out before profession. We meet Prioresses who take on major
challenges in fund-raising to pay for building projects, manage
disagreements over spiritual direction and adjust to new
relationships with secular authorities, the impact of the
Enlightenment and finally war. There are some intense personal
dramas that unfold alongside nuns who followed the monastic rule to
the letter and served the community faithfully over many years.
Above all, the the Chronicles reflect the wide-ranging interests of
the members, and show clearly that this enclosed community was
well-connected with an extensive support network. The Chronicles
edited in this volume, taking the story to the eighteenth century
and a decision as to whether or not to return to England,are
presented with introduction and full notes. Dr Caroline Bowden is a
Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London.
In 2002, the national spotlight fell on Boston's archdiocese, where
decades of rampant sexual misconduct from priests--and the church's
systematic cover-ups--were exposed by reporters from the Boston
Globe. The sordid and tragic stories of abuse and secrecy led many
to leave the church outright and others to rekindle their faith and
deny any suggestions of institutional wrongdoing. But a number of
Catholics vowed to find a middle ground between these two extremes:
keeping their faith while simultaneously working to change the
church for the better. Beyond Betrayal charts a nationwide identity
shift through the story of one chapter of Voice of the Faithful
(VOTF), an organization founded in the scandal's aftermath. VOTF
had three goals: helping survivors of abuse; supporting priests who
were either innocent or took risky public stands against the
wrongdoers; and pursuing a broad set of structural changes in the
church. Patricia Ewick and Marc W. Steinberg follow two years in
the life of one of the longest-lived and most active chapters of
VOTF, whose thwarted early efforts at ecclesiastical reform led
them to realize that before they could change the Catholic Church,
they had to change themselves. The shaping of their collective
identity is at the heart of Beyond Betrayal, an ethnographic
portrait of how one group reimagined their place within an
institutional order and forged new ideas of faith in the wake of
widespread distrust.
Between 1594 and 1598, a preacher named Francois converted 72,000
Protestants to the Catholic Faith. These are his words. ONE OF the
most remarkable and well-documented events in Catholic history
began when a young priest, Francis de Sales, volunteered to
re-evangelize the Calvinists of the Chablais. Finding his preaching
forcefully rejected, Francis de Sales shrewdly switched tactics and
began a written apologetics campaign, posting pamphlets on walls
and slipping them beneath doors under the cover of night. His
defense of the Faith was so clear and thorough that at the end of
four years nearly the entire population of 72,000 had returned to
the Catholic Faith These powerful little tracts are as relevant
today as they were in the late 1500s. De Sales draws support from
Scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church to address
questions still frequently posed by modern Protestants. Revered as
some of the most cogent arguments against Protestantism ever
penned; they present a defense of the Catholic Faith that has never
been equaled. "A full and complete demonstration of the Catholic
religion." -Pope Pius IX
The debate within Catholic educational circles on whether church
sponsored colleges and universities perpetuate mediocrity by giving
too great a priority to the moral development of students instead
of scholarship and intellectual excellence continues in this book
by sociologist Anne Hendershott. She asserts that part of the
reason for the crisis of faith within Catholic colleges is due to
status envy--the desire to compete with the top colleges in the
country. Catholic universities are generally not rated as
top-notch. They are viewed as having a lower status than secular
institutions, which, of course, creates resentment. Catholic
universities, in turn, become more secular as they become consumed
with status concerns.
Detailing how this resentment manifests itself on campuses,
Hendershott explains faculty and administrative attempts to
distance universities from Catholic ideas and curriculum. Some have
distanced themselves so far from their Catholic origins that the
church no longer recognizes them as Catholic institutions. The
author questions whether even determined Catholic universities will
be able to avoid the pressures to become more secular. Hendershott,
who clearly sympathizes with the original mission of Catholic
universities, leads the reader through the earliest signs that
Catholic colleges were beginning to lose their way in the 1960s, up
through the ongoing issues of feminism and homosexuality and their
impact.
In focusing on these secular issues, colleges are denying
exposure to the traditional Catholic views on subjects such as
homosexuality, women's ordination, and abortion. Like all culture
wars, the interaction among people defines the situation. The
campus is a reflection of the greater culture between those who
assert that there are no truths, only readings--and those who
believe that the truths have been revealed and require constant
rereading and application. It is a conflict between those dedicated
to the negation of the authority of Scripture and the hierarchy of
the church, and those proposing a renaissance of the Catholic
intellect and a renewed appreciation of the church itself.
This bestselling book that birthed the Divine Mercy movement, one
of the fastest growing movements in world today. This amazing
narrrative will stir your heart and soul while it chronicles the
experience of a simple Polish nun.
This volume advances scholarly understanding of English Catholicism
in the early modern period through a series of interlocking essays
on single family: the Throckmortons of Coughton Court,
Warwickshire, whose experience over several centuries encapsulates
key themes in the history of the Catholic gentry. Despite their
persistent adherence to Catholicism, in no sense did the
Throckmortons inhabit a 'recusant bubble'. Family members regularly
played leading roles on the national political stage, from Sir
George Throckmorton's resistance to the break with Rome in the
1530s, to Sir Robert George Throckmorton's election as the first
English Catholic MP in 1831. Taking a long-term approach, the
volume charts the strategies employed by various members of the
family to allow them to remain politically active and socially
influential within a solidly Protestant nation. In so doing, it
contributes to ongoing attempts to integrate the study of
Catholicism into the mainstream of English social and political
history, transcending its traditional status as a 'special
interest' category, remote from or subordinate to the central
narratives of historical change. It will be particularly welcomed
by historians of the sixteenth through to the nineteenth century,
who increasingly recognise the importance of both Catholicism and
anti-Catholicism as central themes in English cultural and
political life.
The lives and experiences of Irish women religious highlight how an
expanding nexus of female houses perpetuated European
Counter-Reformation devotion in Ireland. This book investigates the
impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and
examines their survival in the following decades, showing how,
despite the state's official proscription of vocation living,
religious vocation options for women continued in less formal ways.
McShane explores the experiences of Irish women who travelled to
the Continent in pursuit of formal religious vocational formation,
covering both those accommodated in English and European
continental convents' and those in the Irish convents established
in Spanish Flanders and the Iberian Peninsula. Further, this book
discusses the revival of religious establishments for women in
Ireland from 1629 and outlines the links between these new convents
and the Irish foundations abroad. Overall, this study provides a
rich picture of Irish women religious during a period of
unprecedented change and upheaval.
Pope Leo I's theological and political influence in his own time
(440-461) and beyond far outweighs the amount of attention he has
received in recent scholarship. That influence extended well beyond
Rome to the Christian East through his contribution to preparations
for the Council of Chalcedon and its outcome. For this he was
alternately praised and vilified by the opposing parties at the
Council. Leo made his views known through letters, and a vast
number of homilies. While so many of these survive, Leo and his
works have not been the subject of a major English-language
socio-historical study in over fifty years. In this brief
introduction to the life and works of this important leader of the
early church, we gain a more accurate picture of the circumstances
and pressures which were brought to bear on his pontificate. A
brief introduction surveys the scanty sources which document Leo's
early life, and sets his pontificate in its historical context, as
the Western Roman Empire went into serious decline, and Rome lost
its former status as the western capital. Annotated translations of
various excerpts of Leo's letters and homilies are organised around
four themes dealing with specific aspects of Leo's activity as
bishop of Rome: Leo as spiritual adviser on the life of the
faithful Leo as opponent of heresy the bishop of Rome as civic and
ecclesiastical administrator Leo and the primacy of Rome. Taking
each of these key elements of Leo's pontifical activities into
account, we gain a more balanced picture of the context and
contribution of his best-known writings on Christology. This volume
offers an affordable introduction to the subject for both teachers
and students of ancient and medieval Christianity.
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