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  • You Can Understand the Bible: A Practical Guide to Each Book in the Bible by Peter Kreeft

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    Many people are often understandably intimidated or overwhelmed by the sheer size and complexity of the Bible. But now popular author and Boston University professor Peter Kreeft has written a clear road map of the Bible, focusing his keen insight and engaging wit on the core message of each book...

  • Redeemed by Grace: A Catholic Woman's Journey to Planned Parenthood & Back by Romona Trevño

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    At age eight, Ramona Treviño climbed to the top of a roof and begged God to let her know he was real. After receiving a sign, she made a pact with herself to follow him always. But family difficulties and growing pains made it hard for her to continue on that path.

    Pregnant at 16, she dropped...

  • Married Saints and Blesseds through the Centuries by Ferdinand Holbock

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    Countless saints have been priests or religious, living out lives of penance and sacrifice for the sake of the Church. But many Catholics don't realize that married couples are called to holiness as well.

    Fr. Holböck's tells the inspiring stories of over 200 married saints and blesseds from th...

  • A Family of Saints: The Martins of Lisieux–Saints Thérèse, Louis, and Zélie by Stéphane-Joseph Piat

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    "God gave me a father and mother more worthy of heaven than of earth." —Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

    The recent, and unprecedented, canonization by Pope Francis of a husband and wife, Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of Saint Thérèse, has stirred a great interest in this extraordinary family. T...

  • Be a Man! Becoming the Man God Created You to Be by Fr. Larry Richards

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    Men are rediscovering the importance of the spiritual life. And Father Larry Richards is helping them do it. While some writers apply a one-size-fits-all approach to the Christian life, Father Richards draws on his many years of ministry and his own experience as a man to inspire other men as men...

  • Read-Aloud Book of Bible Stories by Amy Steedman

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    From the scores of beautiful and thrilling tales in the Bible, celebrated British author Amy Steedman has collected three dozen that are sure to delight young children.

    With the confidence of a master storyteller practiced in holding the attention of even the most restless child, she weaves ta...

  • Come, Lord Jesus: Meditations on the Art of Waiting by Mother Mary Francis

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    These Advent reflections by the abbess of a Poor Clare monastery, an accomplished spiritual writer, focus our attention on the coming of Jesus into our lives. There is a double movement to this coming; both our active preparation to be ready for him and our patient waiting for the Lord to arrive ...

  • Manalive by G. K. Chesterton

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    This classic novel by the brilliant G. K. Chesterton tells the rollicking tale of Innocent Smith, a man who may be crazy or possibly the most sane man of all. Arriving at a dreary London boarding house accompanied by a windstorm, Smith is an exuberant, eccentric, and sweet-natured man. Smith has ...

  • Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything by Robert Riley

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    Why are Americans being forced to consider homosexual acts as morally acceptable? Why has the US Supreme Court discovered a constitutional right to same-sex "marriage", which until a decade ago, was unheard of in the history of Western or any other civilization? Where has the "gay rights" movemen...

  • The Spiritual Exercise of St. Ignatius by Saint Ignatius of Loyola

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    These Spiritual Exercises were written by Ignatius of Loyola, a theologian, priest, and founder of the Society of Jesus, in the sixteenth century. They are Catholic prayers, reflections, meditations, mental exercises, and directions designed to be read and carried out over a 28 to 30 day time per...

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, ed. by Joseph Pearce

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    Jane Austen is arguably the finest female novelist who ever lived, and Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the finest, at least certainly the most popular, of her novels. An undoubted classic of world literature, its profound Christian morality is all too often missed or wilfully overlooked by today's...

  • Love: A Fruit Always in Season Daily Meditations by Mother Teresa

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    These daily meditations of Mother Teresa have been arranged to coincide with the seasons of the liturgical year and have also been simultaneously arranged according to various themes of the spiritual life.

    "Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may g...

  • St. Patrick's Summer: A Children's Adventure Catechism by Marigold Hunt

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    "I am Eve, the first woman God made. I have come to tell you about the creation of the world and what happened in Eden.”

    So begins one of the many exciting lessons in this surprising adventure catechism — lessons taught by Abraham, St. Patrick, St. Cecilia, and, of course, Eve, the mother of a...

  • Awakening Love: An Ignatian Retreat with the Song of Songs by Gregory Cleveland

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    Discover Gods personal love for you through this Ignatian retreat with the Song of Songs! Ignatian spiritual director and priest Greg Cleveland, OMV draws the reader into a personal experience of Ignatian spirituality through embracing this often ignored book of the Bible. The Spiritual Exercises...

  • Prayer for Beginners by Peter Kreeft

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    Peter Kreeft brings his unique insights to the most important area of our spiritual lives, prayer. He claims he himself is still a beginner in prayer, and this book is for all those, like him, who feel that they struggle to pray well, but desire to become better at it. Thus, Kreeft offers simple,...

  • Love, Marriage, & the Catholic Conscience: Understanding the Church's Teachings on Birth Control by Dietrich von Hildebrand

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    What every Christian needs to know...about love, marriage, and contraception—eye-opening reasons for you to give these Church teachings a closer look.

    Finally, you can learn the full truth about how contraception relates to love and marriage, including:

    What the Church really teaches about ...

  • Subverted by Sue Allen Browder

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    Contraception and abortion were not originally part of the 1960s women’s movement. How did the women’s movement, which fought for equal opportunity for women in education and the workplace, and the sexual revolution, which reduced women to ambitious sex objects, become so united?

    In Subverted,...

  • Awakening: A Crossroads in Time Book by Claudia McAdam

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    In this work of Biblical historical fiction, Ronni is a 21st-century American teenage girl who has lost her faith following the deaths of her father and brother, both of whom died saving the life of someone she doesn’t deem worthy. She can’t understand the concept of sacrifice—even Jesus’s death ...

  • Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from St. Thomas Aquinas by Peter Kreeft

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    St. Thomas Aquinas has been admired throughout the ages for his philosophical brilliance and his theological sanity, but author and professor Peter Kreeft thinks the practical spiritual wisdom of Aquinas is just as amazing.

    In this book, Kreeft brings together 358 useful, everyday insights fro...

  • Love Unveiled: The Catholic Faith Explained by Edward Sri

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    Man cannot live without love.... His life is senseless if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.
    — John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis

    If you were asked what immediately comes to m...

  • Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales

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    Written over 400 years ago, the Introduction to the Devout Life is still one of the most popular books for those pursuing holiness. St. Francis de Sales explains how to turn that desire for sanctity into resolutions that yield grace-filled results.

    Themes include:

    Pursuing a devout life who...

  • Arise from Darkness: What to Do When Life Doesn't Make Sense by Benedict Groeschel

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    Well-known author, psychologist, and priest Fr. Benedict Groeschel draws on his own years of personal experiences in dealing with people's problems, tragedies, and "darkness" as he offers help and guidance for any Christian troubled or burdened by life. If you are struggling with fear, anxiety, g...

  • Pier Giorgio Frassati: A Hero for Our Times by Cristina Siccardi

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    In this definitive biography, Cristina Siccardi situates the appealing figure of young Pier Giorgio Frassati in early 20th century Turin, Italy. In the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Italy where the memory of Savoy is still alive there are two contrasting forms of enterprise: one of older stam...

  • If Your Mind Wanders at Mass by Thomas Howard

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    Distractions, fatigue, boredom at Sunday worship—maybe we experience these because we don't fully appreciate what's going on at Mass. Howard's profound and practical look at the liturgy focuses our wandering minds. It reminds us that at Mass the veil separating earth and heaven lifts, so that we ...