The 35 Doctors of the Church presents the most comprehensive and fascinating collection available anywhere on the lives and labors of the saints who have been declared the Church s Doctors. From St. Athanasius (c. 297-373) to St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873 1897), you ll find the amazing stories of 35 extraordinary men and women who…
For the great majority on both sides of the abortion debate, the idea of a pro-life feminist is the ultimate contradiction in terms. Abortion has become so central to feminist thinking that women who affirm their belief in both women s empowerment and the inalienable right to life can find themselves viewed with suspicion and…
Find some relief from the stress of the season with this fun and artistic new way to count the days until Christmas! The Advent Coloring Calendar will provide a daily dose of peace and focus. Create something beautiful by coloring a pattern for each of the 24 days before Christmas. Sometimes coloring is just coloring. To put crayons to…
By Edward Sri Perhaps the Christmas story has become almost too familiar. A virgin giving birth. A child laid in a manger. Shepherds greeted by angels. The Christmas story has become so familiar that the profound, even shocking, nature of the incarnation might be overlooked. But what if we had never heard the story before?…
A beautifully illustrated book that acquaints children with Angels and the unique role they play in our lives. Ideal for First Communion. 32 pages. Hardcover.
The essentials of the Catholic Faith— clearly & beautifully explained by one of the Church’s greatest thinkers! Although St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the Church’s most intellectually powerful theologians, few know that he also wrote a great deal that’s well within the reach of ordinary believers. In fact, as you’ll find in The Aquinas Catechism, St. Thomas…
I felt as numb and emotionally exhausted as every other American struggling to make sense of the stunningly brutal murder. My own grieving, however, would have to wait. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy had asked that I deliver the eulogy for her husband–and my friend. — Archbishop Philip Hannan Whether parachuting behind enemy lines…jumping into…
There are as many paths to holiness as there are saints in Heaven . . . but you can’t follow them all. Yet there’s one thing every saint practices that you can imitate: the simple art of loving God, which the beloved St. Francis de Sales explains for you here. Under his wise and gentle…
Since the beginning of time, a fierce spiritual battle has raged between the forces of good and evil. Today the spiritual entities of wickedness are winning, burdening countless souls in a world lacerated by evil. To claim victory, God is calling us to engage in spiritual warfare as the only way to save the world…
In The Basic Book of the Eucharist, Fr. Lawrence Lovasik, author of the beloved bestseller The Hidden Power of Kindness, says that in the Eucharist Catholics can find “the unsearchable riches of Christ.” In this book, he shows how. Fr. Lovasik emphasizes Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist, helping you recognize His presence there. With…
What is the greatest spiritual battle? The greatest battles do not occur in a distant land or even in past times but in the depths of the human soul. It is the battle between virtue and vice, the conflict between aspiring to be a saint or living a mediocre life. The conflict between reaching heaven…
The Beggar and the Bluebird is a modern-day fairytale in the tradition of Hans Christian Anderson and the Grimm Brothers. It tells the moving story of a little bird whose flight southward for the winter keeps getting delayed because of the strange requests of a local street beggar. The beggar asks the bird to deliver bread to…
Author Joe Paprocki uses a blueprint metaphor to help Catholics gain a solid understanding of the structure and organization of the Bible. The book covers the different genres of biblical writing, key figures in biblical history, the methods Catholics rely on for interpreting the Bible, how to use commentaries, and more. With cartoons, sidebars, quizzes…
By Edward Sri The Bible is central to our Faith as Catholics. But approaching such a large and complex collection of writings that span thousands of years is intimidating for most of us. We need a guide, a compass to set us off on the right course so that our time spent studying the Scriptures…
In this profoundly insightful and highly readable book, Thomas Nash brilliantly refutes the common charge that the Mass is “unbiblical.” As you’ll discover, the story of the Mass goes deeper than the Last Supper and Christ’s Passion and Death. Indeed, it’s part of an unbroken story that begins in the Garden of Eden and continues…
The Blessed Sacrament is the great open secret of the Catholic Church–the great truth that Jesus Christ is in the Tabernacle and is accessible to all who believe in Him. But this truth is not immediately obvious, and thus it is not really appreciated as it should be. The Blessed Sacrament–God With Us is a…