Books from Paulist Press

  • Survival Notes for New Parents: Inspiration for an Amazing Adventure
    By Robert Stofel

    David had a way of talking himself out of a funk. He said, “Why are you downcast, O my soul?” He used self-talk. He lifted his burdens by speaking to his soul. And there will be times when our children must talk themselves out of a ...

  • 15 Ways to Nourish Your Faith
    By Susan Shannon Davies

    Acknowledging that different people need different paths to God, the author explores a wide range of ways in which the spiritual life can be enhanced and the soul nourished.

  • Circling to the Center: One Woman's Encounter with Silent Prayer
    By Susan M. Tiberghien

    Illuminating study of the important links between psychology and mysticism , the individual and the external world , bridging Eastern and Western thinking Bryant , Christopher . Jung and the Christian Way . San Francisco : Harper & Row ...

  • Where the Hell Is God?
    By Richard Leonard

    Combines professional insights along with the author's own experience and insights to speculate on how believers can make sense of their Christian faith when confronted with tragedy and suffering.

  • Hatch, Match, and Dispatch: A Catholic Guide to Sacraments
    By Richard Leonard, SJ

    At the end of the treacherous journey beyond the waterfall, Jesuit missionaries were martyred for their trouble. Yet, armed only with his Bible and oboe, Fr. Gabriel decides to make the journey himself. Captured by the Guarani people, ...

  • Speaking of Miracles: The Faith Experience at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Saint Ann in Scranton, Pennsylvania
    By Cassian J. Yuhaus, Richard Frechette

    Your beautiful sanctuary of St. Gabriel at Gran Sasso is well known to us. St. Gabriel's attracts several million people on pilgrimage and prayer each year and is a source of many blessings. It is my hope that St. Ann's will see a ...

  • The Catholic Parish: Hope for a Changing World
    By Robert J. Hater

    Years ago , Jason and Karen , a young couple , set up an appointment with Father Dave to talk about their child's baptism . Karen told him that they were not practicing their Catholic faith . He said , " If you are serious about ...

  • Letters from a Wounded Heart: Reflections to Strengthen and Comfort Your Soul
    By Gerard F. Baumbach

    A collection of 40 letters to God from a poet/writer seeking communion with and healing from the divine in the midst of the woundedness encountered in everyday living.

  • Spirituality for Lent and Easter: A Guide for Bridging the Mysteries
    By Gerard F. Baumbach

    Challenges readers to explore, share, and celebrate the themes/mysteries of the Sunday Lent and Easter readings.

  • Faith for the Heart: A "Catholic" Spirituality
    By Thomas H., Groome

    A "Catholic" Spirituality Groome, Thomas H. “Poem for Anne Gregory” from The Winding Stair and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats and George Bornstein. Copyright © 1933 by The Macmillan Company. Copyrights renewed © 1961 by Bertha ...

  • Theology and the Arts: Encountering God Through Music, Art, and Rhetoric
    By Richard Viladesau

    ... 160 , 162 Claudel , Paul , 254 Concupiscence , 52 , 147 , 162 Contrast experiences , 148 , 191 Conversion ... 95 , 122 Daniel , 138 , 165 Dante Alighieri , 35 , 191 Danto , Arthur , 243 David , 66–71 , 120 , 236 , 237 Da Vinci ...

  • The Ecumenical Christian Dialogues and The CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    By Jeffrey Gros, FSC, and Daniel S. Mulhall

    5 T HE P ROFESSION OF F AITH : T HE C REED Harry (a Lutheran) and Beatrice (a Catholic) have been happily married for ... Towards Sharing One Faith(http://wcc coe.org/wcc/what/faith/tsof.html) can beuseful companions to the Catechism.

  • To Work for the Whole People: John Ireland's Seminary in St. Paul
    By Mary Christine Athans

    An in-depth history of the seminary of the Archdiocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis, from the time of its founding by Archbishop John Ireland.

  • Dreams and Spiritual Growth: A Christian Approach to Dreamwork : with More Than 35 Dreamwork Techniques
    By Louis M. Savary, Patricia H. Berne, Strephon Kaplan Williams

    Greene , Thayer A. " The Dream : Clinical Aid and Theological Catalyst . " Union Seminary Quarterly Review 1969 , 24 ( 2 ) : 171-180 . Hall , J.A. " Religious Images in Dreams . " Journal of Religion and Health 1979 , 18 ( 4 ) : 327-335 ...

  • Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East
    By Victor Harold Matthews, Don C. Benjamin

    J.C. De Moor , An Anthology of Religious Texts from Ugarit ( 1987 ) , 191–223 . J.C. De Moor and K. Spronk , A Cuneiform Anthology of Religious Texts from Ugarit ( 1987 ) , 78-101 . H.L. Ginsberg , The Legend of King Keret ( 1946 ) .

  • To Hear God's Word, Listen to the World: The Liberation of Spirituality
    By William E. Reiser

    consult Chapter 7 of Richard McBrien , Catholicism ( San Francisco : HarperSan Francisco , 1994 [ new edition ] ) . What is not clear in McBrien , however , is what revelation would have meant in Jesus ' case . What we think revelation ...

  • 101 Questions and Answers on Deacons
    By William T. Ditewig

    101 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE CHURCH by Richard P. McBrien 101 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON CONFUCIANISM, DAOISM, AND SHINTO by John Renard 101 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON VATICAN II by Maureen Sullivan, O.P. 101 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON ...

  • Forming Deacons
    By William T. Ditewig

    Richard McBrien called this proclaiming an ecclesiastical event that causes Church to happen: “a kerygmatic community which holds aloft, through the preached Word, the wonderful deeds of God in past history, particularly his mighty act ...

  • A Theologian's Journey
    By Thomas F. O'Meara

    9 Rahner and Lotz became friends with another student , Max Muller , and in their rooms they worked on Plato and discussed their teachers . Decades later , Muller described Rahner as someone caught between the neo - Thomist Honecker and ...

  • The Anonymous Disciple
    By Gerard E. Goggins

    Finally, I got down to a major intersection on Woodward Avenue. Traffic was backed up in all directions. And there, in the middle of the street, was a well- dressed fellow — who had obviously been drinking for a few days — directing ...