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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Pope Benedict's final days and Francis' battle to set the church on a new path. Pope Benedict made history when he announced his resignation, becoming the first Pope to step down voluntarily in six hundred years. In his wake he left a bitterly divided Vatican mired in scandals. But is Benedict's successor, Pope Francis, taming the forces that helped destroy Benedict's papacy? Is he succeeding in lifting the Church out of crisis? Nearly a year in the...
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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things...
6) Relics
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Harker chronicles volume 1
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English
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When a Catholic priest hangs himself at the Pope's inauguration, his friend, Professor Alex Harker, is dragged into a secret war. A priest's suicide sets into motion a timetable of terrifying events that will alter the world as we know it. Professor Alex Harker finds himself in an epic battle--one that has been playing out on the fringes of society since the birth of Christ. It threatens to reveal a truth so shocking that it could transform mankind's...
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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Columnist, television host, author, and practicing Catholic Michael Coren examines four main aspects of Catholicism as they are encountered, understood, and more importantly, misunderstood today. "Why Catholics Are Right" opens with a discussion of the abuse scandal and the reality of what happened. Coren then traces Catholic history, with a discussion on the Crusades, Inquisition, Holocaust, and Galileo. Finally, Coren outlines the pro-life position...
11) Faith: a novel
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English
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When her older brother Art--a Catholic priest and the popular pastor of a large suburban parish--finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.
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George Weigel's New York Times bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at the dawn of a new era.
When John Paul II lapsed into illness for the last time, people flocked from all over the world to pray...
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Yale Nota Bene Book
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English
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Traces the history of the papacy from its origins nearly two thousand years ago to the start of the twenty-first century, examining the influence each Pope has had on the Catholic religion and the changes the Church has undergone in that time.
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New Directions paperbook volume 1091
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New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have compared Merton's reflections with those of Thoreau. New Seeds of Contemplation seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected...
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"A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between 'progress' and 'tradition' in the world's largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic...
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