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Sister Agatha, an extern nun in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery, serves as the sisters' link to the outside world, running errands and helping those who need it, and when an eight-year-old girl who has the power to perform miracles disappears, Sister Agatha is asked to find the girl and protect her from those who want to exploit her gift.

An autobiography in which author Mary McCarthy recalls her early idyllic childhood, the death of her parents, and the following years with relatives who tried with varying degrees of success to provide Mary with a Catholic upbringing.

Moira, a seventh-grader in a predominantly Irish Catholic school, struggles with her conscience because of her desire to see a movie classed "B" by the Legion of Decency.

On the day of a royal wedding in a kingdom where everyone has grown careless in the practice of their Catholic faith, a poor widow helps reveal the true value of the Mass.

Explores how four twentieth-century American Catholic authors, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, and Dorothy Day, came to believe the best way to explore the quandries of religious faith was in writing.

Rebelling against her strict Catholic upbringing in 1967, teenager Mary Elizabeth sorts through her feelings about her parents and friends, and about sex, while making some decisions about the type of life she wants for herself.

Seven stories present situations that pose the major questions in life, such as "Why are we here?" and "Why do we die?" and then suggest chapters and verses in the Catholic Youth Bible that families can explore together to find the answers.

Explores how, in the 1960 presidential election, John F. Kennedy overcame the religious issues that had always prevented a Roman Catholic from being elected president and discusses how his campaign turned Kennedy's religious affiliation into a positive part of the campaign, forever changing how religion is viewed in America.