Thomas Merton wrote to Catherine de Vinck back in 1966, "You have a wonderful Blake-like response to the sacred world". And Cornelia Jessey Sussman expressed these sentiments about her poetic gift: "...perhaps there are only three or four every century... given the gift to voice the eternal vision, to put into words what we know cannot be put into words. Like the sun breaking through the clouds of a dark frozen winter sky, such poets bring the ...

Ronald Knox was one of the most influential British convert-writers of the 20th century. Of his many works, The Belief of Catholics is his best-known book and his premiere piece of apologetics. While it deals extensively with Protestantism, its target is more the unchurched or lightly-church modern who, if he gives any thought at all to Catholicism, thinks it mildly foreign.<P>As Knox knew, it is not the most difficult part of modern ...

Peer ministry can be described most simply as one young person helping another. The positive peer influence that occurs naturally can be nourished and enhanced, becoming a source of energy for the entire community. This program, developed over twenty years of working with teens, offers a step-by-step approach to recruitment, training and spiritual development for Christian young people involved in formal peer ministry.<P>Friend for the ...

Gender Identities in American Catholicism contains over one hundred original documents that range temporally from the earliest days of American Catholicism to the present. These documents illustrate how gender is a prime determiner of social position in the church and in American society as a whole, and how changing attitudes to gender identities affect a community's self-understanding. These carefully selected texts show ways in which gender ...

If you've ever thought about community, whether as a lifestyle or simply as an expression of deeper fellowship with others, this book is essential reading. In the fifteen years since it first appeared in English, it has become "the" classic text on the subject -- read, dog-eared, borrowed, and discussed.<P>Vanier is not a rosy idealist. That is because his writing is based not on theories, but on a wealth of wisdom gleaned over many years ...

Pope John Paul II's newest work, both personal and spiritually accessible to all, was written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his ordination as a priest. 16-page line drawing insert. ...

Plunkett ponders the mystery of the recent apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Yugoslavia to find meanings in the messages put forth by the Blessed Mother--her pleas for peace, prayer, and simplicity--and their relationship to a rapidly changing world feeling the weight of its future. Queen of Prophets is a book to console and to challenge. ...

The spiritual masterpiece of how to make the love of God the end of all one's actions. ...

In this insightful book Furey explores the yearnings which invade the human heart and make us feel pulled beyond ourselves to a destination that may not be immediately known or understood -- sometimes referred to as our calling. ...

This book is intended to be both a manual for preparatin for the sacrament of confirmation and a remembrance of this important event in the spiritual life of the confirmed Catholic. ...