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The beauty of Rumi's path and teachings is skillfully suggested by a combination of limpid quotations, cogent commentaries; and exquisite illustrations, including calligraphics and miniatures.

The author believes that the cumulative effects of the major developments in Catholic history are reflected in the contemporary community of believers; they illustrate this belief through an integration of culture, art, and theology. Profiles of the church's most challenging figures, its important structures, and its often controversial doctrine are included.

The astute theologican-sociologist-sister-brother team who researched and wrote this book examine the patterns which characterize the exodus of many people from the Catholic Church and their return, looking not for justifications or recriminations, but for ways in which the Church can bestg welcome back and serve the religious needs of its prodigal sons and daughters.

Renewal - without loss of identity - is the subject of this careful look at the problems facing Catholics in a time of radical change.

The Church should proceed with its own internal reforms, which had such a hopeful beginning in the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 - 1965).

This book was the subject of a Vatican inquiry. The reason, ironically enough, has little to do with its alleged use of Marxist thought, but rather with its critical understanding of the church in the light of the gospel. This is a provocative, devasting critique of the ways in which power, sacred power, is controlled and exercised in the Roman Catholic Church.

With more than 3,000 entries, this Revised Edition covers virtually every aspect of the Catholic Church. It clearly defines and explains criticial principles of the Catholic Faith.

Father Brady has chosen to put together a collection of passages arranged by topic in which Newman - orator, writer and theologian - illustrates his faith-filled insights through the use of a vast array of concrete images.