catholic church

From the humblest parish to the inner councils of the Vatican, Father Greeley reveals the hierarchy of the Catholic Church as it really is, and its priests as the men they realy are.

Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celebate men whose days are centered around a regid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that Kathleen Norris herself asks as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at a Benedictine monastery. Yet upon leaving the monastery, she began to feel herself transformed, and the daily events of her life on the Great Plains - from her morning walk to her going to sleep at night - gradually took on new meaning.

As the new millenium approaches, here is a great resource to help individuls and groups discern the current movements in their parish and to begin planning the kind of spiritual and operational posture their parrsh should take on in the future.

This course helps students open themselves up to God's gift of faith so that it becomes real and meaningful- something that colors and shapes the people they are now and will someday become.

Religion only makes sense if it relates to our lives as we experience them. The same holds true for religion courses. A textbook for Roman Catholic education.

Features religious and lay church members alike revealing their own personal insights into the meaning of evangelization.

The place of the Mother of Jesus in Christian thought and life is receiving revigorated attention to many respects, catechetically, liturgically and ecumenically.

Although this book may never answer ever question, this is its concientious goal.

For the first time in its two thousand-year history the Catholic Church can now truly claim to be a 'universal' church. No longer the church of the Latin West, it has become the church 'of six continents', a World Church in which the peoples of theThird world predominate. Such a fundamental shift in the church'e awareness of itself is perhaps more radical in its implications than the Second Vatican Council - yet this seismic shift has hardly registered within the Church of the First World.

We all cherish the stories of our growing up, our family events, our relationships with loved ones.These stories give us a sense of where we've been, and most importantly, help us to determine where we are going. The Bible is just such a collection of stories- the lived experience of a people today. Biblical meditations for the Easter Season focuses on the stories provided by the church's cycle of readings for the seven weeks of the Easter Season. The author provides a meditation that combines scriptural scholarship with insights from contemporary life.