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Essentials of the Catholic Faith
Essentials of the Faith: A Guide to the Catechism of the Catholic Church
A recommended book in the RCIA divided in 4 parts - faith declaration, sacraments as celebration of life, commandments as the faith lived, and the power of prayer. Essentials of the Faith is more than a brilliant guide to the Catechism. It's also a practical handbook for putting those timeless teachings of the Church into daily life.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the Sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of saints. It comes with a complete index, footnotes and cross-references for a fuller understanding of every subject. The word catechism means "instruction" - this book will serve as the standard for all future catechisms.
Ignatius Bible: Second Catholic Edition
A must to own. Use for study personally or with others, devotion and reflection, and apologetics.
Why We're Catholic
"How can we believe all that stuff?" This book assembles the clearest, friendliest, most helpful answer. Why We're Catholic is our reasons for faith, hope, and love.
The Essential Catholic Survival Guide
Every Catholic will come face-to-face with anti-Catholic attacks that are launched against the Faith. This is a cohesive, comprehensive book that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere to defend the Catholic faith. A “go-to” resource when it comes to answering questions about the Faith.
Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought
This book presents a comprehensive survey of the development of Marian doctrine and devotion during the first eight centuries. Focusing on the lives and works of over thirty of the most famous Church Fathers and early Christian writers, this book gives clear and readable summary of the richness of the theological and devotional approach to the Mother of God.
Learn: history of the church
Learn about the history of the church from the early christians.
Upon this Rock
This book demonstrate that the early Christians had a clear understanding of the primacy of Peter in the see of Rome. Stephen Ray tackles the tough issues in an attempt to expose how the opposition is misunderstanding the Scriptures and history. He uses many Protestant scholars and historians to support the Catholic position. This book contains the most complete compilation of Scriptural and Patristic quotations on the primacy of Peter and the Papal office of any book available.
The Fathers Know Best
What Did Early Christians Really Believe? The Answer Will Surprise and Amaze You! The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church is a unique resource that introduces you to the teachings of the first Christians in a way no other work can.
History of the Catholic Church
A book to better our understanding and love for the history of the Church. To love the Church, we must understand her history. As Blessed Pope John XXIII remarked, 'History is our best teacher.'
The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
The Lamb’s Supper reveals a long-lost secret of the Church: The early Christians' key to understanding the mysteries of the Mass was the New Testament Book of Revelation. Pope John Paul II described the Mass as "Heaven on Earth," explaining that what "we celebrate on Earth is a mysterious participation in the heavenly liturgy."
The Spirit of the Liturgy
Pope Benedict XVI greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully written treatment of the "great prayer of the Church" will help readers rediscover the Liturgy in all its hidden spiritual wealth and transcendent grandeur as the very center of our Christian life.
Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History (Cascade Companions)
Pecknold shows how early Christianity reshaped the Western political imagination with its new theological claims about eschatological time, participation, and communion with God and neighbor. The ancient view of the Church as the "mystical body of Christ" is singled out in particular as the author traces shifts in its use and meaning throughout the early, medieval, and modern periods-shifts in how we understand the nature of the person, community and the moral conscience that would give birth to a new relationship between Christianity and politics.
Eusebius: The Church History
Often called the "Father of Church History," Eusebius was the first to trace the rise of Christianity during its crucial first three centuries from Christ to Constantine. Our principal resource for earliest Christianity, The Church History presents a panorama of apostles, church fathers, emperors, bishops, heroes, heretics, confessors, and martyrs.
Against Heresies
Ireneaus, was a bishop of Smyrna, was taught directly by Polycarp, and Polycarp was taught by John the Apostle. One of the most important works of early Christian Theology, Against Heresies is written to refute the Gnostic heresy. Enjoy this classic work!
The Life of the Virgin: Maximus the Confessor
This seventh-century Life of the Virgin, attributed to Maximus the Confessor, is the earliest complete Marian biography. Originally written in Greek and now surviving only in Old Georgian, it is now translated for the first time into English. It is a work that holds profound significance for understanding the history of late ancient and medieval Christianity, providing a rich source for understanding the history of Christian piety.
Learn: Conversion and defenses of the church
Apologists and defenders of the faith in the modern times and conversion stories from former protestants.
The Case for Catholicism
Defense and answers to protestant objections from the past and present.
Surprised by Truth
These eleven personal conversion accounts are unlike any you’ve ever read, they’re packed with biblical theological and historical proofs for Catholicism. Each year thousands of atheists, Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Pentecostals are being surprised by Catholic truth – and these converts tell you why.
Surprised by Truth Book 2
These are testimonies by people who found new life in the Catholic Church. Their reasons are so compelling that Catholics can use them to draw their own non-Catholic friends and relatives to the Faith.
Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
Catholic apologists tell in their own words about the incredible spiritual journey that led them to embrace Catholicism. Scott Hahn was a Presbyterian minister, the top student in his seminary class, a brilliant Scripture scholar, and militantly anti-Catholic ... until he reluctantly began to discover that his "enemy" had all the right answers.
Crossing the Tiber: Evangelical Protestants Discover the Historical Church
A conversion story of a devout Baptist who relates how he overcame his hostility to the Catholic Church by a combination of serious Bible study and vast research of the writings of the early Church Fathers. In addition, he offers an in-depth treatment of Baptism and the Eucharist in Scripture and the ancient Church.
The Protestant's Dilemma: How the Reformation's Shocking Consequences Point to the Truth of Catholicism
In The Protestant's Dilemma, Rose examines over thirty of those conclusions, showing with solid evidence, compelling reason, and gentle humor how the major tenets of Protestantism - if honestly pursued to their furthest extent - wind up in dead ends. The only escape? Catholic truth.
Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Defend, and Explain the Catholic Faith
This book explains the "how and why" of the Catholic faith. Hahn shows that reason and revelation, as well as nature and the supernatural, are not opposed to one another; rather, they offer complementary evidence that God exists.
Debating Catholicism
Four prominent anti-Catholics. Four public debates. Four rollicking books in one volume. So, unfortunately, are the misconceptions and imprecisions exhibited by Keating’s opponents. He tried to correct those misconceptions and adjust those imprecisions in the heat of public exchanges. How did he fare? Was the Catholic faith vindicated or vanquished?
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. His reflections are mostly wise, humble, and concrete. "I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both." --Michael Joseph Gross
Sex au Naturel: What It Is and Why It's Good for Your Marriage
Patrick Coffin argues the case against contraception from the Bible, tradition, and reason. This book is well researched and demonstrates a real desire to share the riches of the Church's teaching on the beauty and dignity of the sexual act. From this book, you will learn how the dogma of the Blessed Trinity implicit condemns birth control, that every single Protestant denomination rejected birth control until 1930.. among others. A must read.
The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom
The Eucharist is the crowning achievement of the well-known liturgical scholar, Alexander Schmemann. It reflects his entire life experience and thoughts on the Divine Liturgy, the Church's central act of self-realization. Father Alexander Schmemann (+1983) was a prolific writer, brilliant lecturer, and dedicated pastor. This is one of the best liturgical theology ever written.
The Real Story of Catholic History: Answering Twenty Centuries of Anti-Catholic Myths
Anti-Catholics like to paint Church teachings in a way that makes them seem vain, backward, or superstitious, all in the hope of drawing people out of the Faith and into sects or unbelief. Catholic apologists fight back with facts and sound arguments. This book is an essential resource for every Catholic’s bookshelf.
Learn: The reformation and why it happened
Catholic answers The Reformation, the movement that led to the most serious division of Christianity.
Defenders of the Faith in Word and Deed
Defenders of the faith have been raised up in every era of the Church to proclaim fidelity to the truth by their words and deeds. Some have fought heresy and overcome confusion like Athanasius against the Arians and Ignatius Loyola in response to the Protestant reformers. The stories of all these, are told here in this book.
20 Answers- The Reformation
Who and what were the major figures and ideas of the Protestant Reformation? Is it true that the medieval Catholic Church was so corrupt that a total religious revolution was necessary? How did the Church respond to the Reformation, and what were its lasting effects on Christianity and world history? Five hundred years after Martin Luther, what can Catholics do to bridge the divide with Protestants and restore Christian unity? The 20 Answers Series from Catholic Answers offers hard facts, powerful arguments, and clear explanations of the most important topics facing the Church and the world
Learn: the lives of saints, stories, and the beautiful impact of the church
Looking up to the lives of the saints, the church innovations, and its impact around the world.
The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began.
Saint Francis of Assisi
"St. Francis was above all things a great giver; and he cared chiefly for the best kind of giving which is called thanksgiving.... He knew that the praise of God stands on its strongest ground when it stands on nothing. He knew that we can best measure the towering miracle of the mere fact of existence if we realize that but for some strange mercy we should not even exist.... From him came a whole awakening of the world and a dawn in which all shapes and colors could be seen anew." - G. K. Chesterton
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi
The Life of St Francis of Assisi by St Bonaventure conveys a picture of the Saint that renders an indelible impression of a man totally transformed by God.
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church—and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. Gifts such as modern science, free-market economics, art, music, and the idea of human rights come from the Catholic Church, explains Woods.
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