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Audiobooks. bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. History. Interviews. Juvenile works.Carroll, 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 CARO'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'COAmorth, Gabriele
Summary: The story and work of exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sophia Institute Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 264 AMOKnuth, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Loyola Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 261.8 KNUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Chris KnuthSwarns, Rachel L.
Summary: "In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their mission, the fledgling Georgetown University. Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns has broken new ground with her prodigious research into a history that the Catholic Church has edited out of its own narrative. Beginning in the present, when two descendants of a family enslaved by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 SWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 SWAWilson, Joan Nockels
Summary: "Set in Rome, Chicago, and Anchorage, and spanning thirty years from crime to confrontation, The Book of Timothy: A Sister's Pursuit recounts in lyric movements a sister's journey, partly through trickery, but eventually through truth, to gain a long-absent admission from the priest who abused her brother. While on that journey, Nockels Wilson, a former prosecutor, confronts not only the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boreal Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, JOAN NOCKELS WILFremon, Celeste.
Summary: This paperback edition of the book originally published in 1995 updates us on the lives of the East Los Angeles homeboys with whom Father Greg Boyle continues to work, allowing for an analysis as to how some former gang members are able to make it out, while others are not.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 259.5092 FREKoman, Alan J.
Summary: For anyone interested in his or her own genealogical links to medieval Europe and early Christianity, Alan Koman's new book offers an extraordinary opportunity. For the first time, the lives of 275 early European saints are retold and accompanied by lineages connected those saints to twenty-four of the great men and women of medieval Europe. Today, those twenty-four men and women have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2010
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3 KOMIvereigh, Austen
Summary: Following his critically acclaimed The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh's colorful, clear-eyed portrait of Pope Francis takes us inside the Vatican's urgent debate over the future of the church in Wounded Shepherd. This deeply contextual biography centers on the tensions generated by the pope's attempt to turn the Church away from power and tradition and outwards to engage humanity with God's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANCIS, POPE IVEKramer, Barbara
Summary: Meet Pope Francis. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pope Francis is the first Pope from the Americas. He's also the first Pope to replace a living one! Learn all about the Pontiff in this Level 1 reader, carefully leveled for an early independent reading or read aloud experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KRAMerton, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.125 MERBernard, Jean
Contents: In prison -- Arrival at Dachau -- The first two weeks -- In the main camp -- First mass in the camp -- Recollections from the first few months -- The "good times" come to an end -- Winter approaches -- Christmas 1941 -- Ten days' leave and my return to Dachau -- "Transport commando Praezifix" -- Easter week 1942 -- Hunger -- Visitors in the camp -- At the end of our strength -- The infirmary --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zaccheus Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BERCarroll, James
Summary: "James Carroll weaves together the story of how his Irish mother inspired little Jimmy to believe in the Church, despite his young doubts, with the story of how the Catholic Church evolved in history to become an institution that places dominance and power in an all-male clergy. Carroll argues that clericalism is both the root cause and the ongoing enabler of the present Catholic crisis, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.09 CARDe Waal, Esther.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Servant Publications 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 269.6 DEWShriver, Mark K. (Mark Kennedy)
Summary: "A portrait of Pope Francis and his faith draws on interviews with the men and women who knew him as a child, before he became a priest, or during his years as a bishop, sharing additional insights into the individuals who helped shape his beliefs,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANCIS SHRWilley, David
Summary: A BBC correspondent and an expert on the Vatican describes Pope Francis' first two years as pope and speculates what the future might hold for the unique man selected to head the Roman Catholic Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FRANCIS, POPE WilBernstein, 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 BERCampbell, Simone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAMPBELL, SIMONE CAMCutié, Albert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 282.092 CUTFrancis
Summary: In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart -- mercy -- which has long been the cornerstone of his faith and is now the central teaching of his papacy. In this conversation with Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli, Francis explains --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 282.092 FRAKoehler, John O.
Summary: Evaluates the Soviet Union's espionage campaign against the Catholic Church, drawing on previously unseen documents to reveal an assassination order against Pope John Paul II and a Russian spy network intent on infiltrating church infrastructure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1245 KOEGirzone, Joseph F.
Summary: The author unveils his personal way to God, describing a God who is neither silent nor condemning with words of wisdom, sympathy, and generosity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 240 GIRMonahan, Molly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8322 MONJordan, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005