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Catholic Church Doctrines Catholic Church. Catholics Catholics Fiction Chastity Religious aspects Catholic Church Christian ethics Catholic authors Mothers and sons Religious aspects Catholic Church Parenting Religious aspects Catholic Church Theology, Doctrinal Wisdom Moral and ethical aspectsSengstock, Mary C.
Contents: Culture and institutions in the Chaldean community -- A changing population -- Redefining community -- Contributions of the Chaldean community to Detroit and Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPFord, Jeanne Marie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Catholic immigrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 FORCraughwell, Thomas J.
Summary: For nearly 200 years—standing alongside our heroic military men and women—have been heroic Catholic priests risking their lives to carry wounded soldiers to safety and to console, anoint, and absolve the dying. Heroic Catholic Chaplains spotlights the stories of these courageous, selfless, holy priests who volunteered to bring the Mass and the sacraments to American troops, while also offering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TAN Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.347 CRAAsquith, Clare.
Summary: "In sixteenth-century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: serve their monarch or their God. The schism between the Crown and the Catholic Church had widened from a theological dispute in the reign of Henry VIII to bitter political conflict under Elizabeth I. It was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 ASQMassa, Mark Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Pub. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.62 MASCarroll, James
Summary: This personal history of the American Catholic Church during writer Carroll's lifetime traces the transformation of a medieval institution, suspicious of American ideas of freedom and democracy, into a church that has begun to embrace basic American principles of pluralism and respect for conscience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 CARMcGreevy, John T.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Independent publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.09 MCGO'Connell, Maureen H.
Summary: "The author goes on a pilgrimage of her family's history in Catholic parishes throughout one of the largest dioceses in the country to excavate the legacy of American Catholic anti-blackness she has inherited and discover spiritual resources for resistingit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 O'COMcClory, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbis Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.092 MCCO'Toole, James
Summary: From the Publisher: Shaken by the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal, and challenged from within by social and theological division, Catholics in America are at a crossroads. But is today's situation unique? And where will Catholicism go from here? With the belief that we understand our present by studying our past, James O'Toole offers a bold and panoramic history of the American Catholic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 OTOGreeley, Andrew M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GREGreene, Graham
Summary: An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 JONJordan, Patrick
Summary: By any measure, Dorothy Day lived a fascinating life. She was a journalist, activist, single mother, convert, Catholic laywoman, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. A lifelong radical who took the gospels at their word, Dorothy Day lived among the poor as one of them, challenging both church and state to build a better world for all people. Steeped in prayer, the liturgy, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Christian JordanMcInerny, Ralph M.
Contents: Anathema sits -- A falling star -- The Dunne deal -- The cube root of ice -- Hic jacet -- Past times -- The coveted correspondence -- Death wish -- The giveaway -- The prodigal son -- Imaginary sins -- A life sentence -- On ice -- The bald-headed husband -- Ashes to ashes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCITremayne, Peter
Summary: "Ireland. AD 672. The body of a dead man has been found on a lonely mountain road and taken to the isolated abbey of Gleann Da Loch for a proper burial. The abbot quickly identifies him as Brehon Brocc, who had been travelling to the abbey on a secret mission with Princess Gelgeis and her steward. When news reaches Colgu, King of Muman, that his betrothed, Princess Gelgeis, has disappeared,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREFrancis
Summary: Pope Francis examines the role of millennials in the future of the Catholic Church in this urgent call to believers of all generations to work together to build a better world. Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church and become one of the most popular global leaders. Now, in this extraordinary interview with journalist Thomas Leoncini, His Holiness reminds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 282.092 FRANeuhaus, Richard John.
Contents: The church we mean when we say "church" -- Becoming the Catholic I was -- The authority in question -- Where the sweet birds sang -- Lest Catholics be different -- Proposing the story of the world -- The center holds -- Rome diary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 NEUCornwell, John
Summary: "Pope Francis is prepared to say "bring on the collapse", as perhaps the only way of purging a disgraced Church. "It is not impossible," Francis has said, "that I will go down in history as the one who split the Catholic Church?" However, for Catholics asa whole, the Church will, if Francis is successful, be a friendlier, more empathetic, presence in their lives. Bestselling author, Vanity Fair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Prism 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 CORGallagher, Charles R.
Summary: "During WWII, a group of American Catholics openly embraced Nazism. Their armed wing, the Christian Front, stockpiled weapons for the revolution. Charles Gallagher unearths the history of these forgotten terrorists, the mainstream leaders who protected them, the powers who brought them down, and a society that has suppressed their memory"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 GALBernstein, Carl
Summary: "His Holiness is at once compelling journalism, drama, history, and biography. John Paul II, elected as the first non-Italian pope in five hundred years, readily used his global pulpit to speak out on behalf of human rights and those who were ignored by other world leaders--whether politically or economically oppressed, whether in the Communist or non-Communist world. Born in a small Polish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHN PAUL II, POPE BERFrancis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 FraSpitzer, Robert J.
Contents: Introduction: The purpose, perspective, and method of this volume -- Part One: Love and sexuality: True and false promises. True and false promises of happiness and freedom -- True and false promises of the homosexual lifestyle, pornography, gender change, and artificial birth control -- Part Two. Matters of life and death. Abortion, eugenics, invitro fertilization and embryonic stem cells --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ignatius Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241 SPIWeigel, George
Summary: Publisher's description: In this remarkable tour of the Catholic world, George Weigel helps us understand how Catholicism fosters what Flannery O'Connor called "the habit of being." Taking the reader by the hand, Weigel embarks on a journey to Catholic landmarks as diverse as Chartres Cathedral and St. Mary's Church in Greenville, South Carolina; the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and G.K....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2004