Books from Paulist Press

  • Navigating New Terrain: Work and Women's Spiritual Lives
    By Claire E. Wolfteich

    Robert C. Tucker ( New York : W. W. Norton , 1978 ) , 744 . 15. Whereas working men often disdained the clergy and parish activities , many women in nineteenth - century Europe " found in their hours spent at church almost their only ...

  • Group Spiritual Direction: Community for Discerment
    By Rose Mary Dougherty, S.S.N.D.

    John K. Ryan. Introduction to the Devout Life, by Saint Francis de Sales. Image Books, 1966, pp. 175–176. 11. Barbara Bedolla and Dominic Totaro, S.J. “Ignatian Spir​i​tu​ality,” in Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church by ...

  • Divine Harmony: Seeking Community in a Broken World
    By Mary Doak

    Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine, trans. and with an introduction and notes by John K. Ryan (New York: Doubleday, 1960), 102, 255–56. 9. Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), “Communion: Eucharist—Fellowship—Mission,” in his ...

  • Seeds of Hope: Young Adults and the Catholic Church in the United States
    By Tim Muldoon

    Unless Christians rooted inJesus' commands to reach out to the poor133 develop structures that can converse with and sometimes challenge the extremes of marketcentered (rather than person-centered) economics, their individual acts of ...

  • Understanding Jesus: 50 Reasons Why Jesus Matters
    By Andrew Hamilton, SJ

    Using archaeological and Christian sources, Understanding Jesus provides us with historical and scriptural reasons to know Jesus better and why he might matter to us.

  • Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops' Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children
    By Nicholas P. Cafardi

    It turned out that Mr. Cook had ' recovered memories of the supposed abuse under hypnosis by an unlicensed ... Bishop John F. Kinney , chairman , Bishops ' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse , November 14 , 1994 introductory letter ...

  • Thirst: Our Desire for God, God's Desire for Us
    By Mendon‡a, Jos‚ Tolentino

    Although not a religious work, Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince is a kind of contemporary mystagogy, since it leads us to search for the meaning of life. It is significant that it was written in 1943 during the Second World War, ...

  • Reading the Bible: A Study Guide
    By Timothy R. Carmody

    "Ideal for introductory Bible courses, adult education groups, and readers of any faith, this book is an invitation to engage biblical text in a direct, fulfilling, and honest manner in order to better understand and interpret it, and to ...

  • Evil: Satan, Sin, and Psychology
    By Terry D. Cooper

    1. Quoted in William Hart,Evil: APrimer(NewYork: St. Martin's Press), 44. 2. Ibid., 1. 3. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Satan:The Early Christian Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, ...

  • An Alternative Vision: An Interpretation of Liberation Theology
    By Roger Haight, Roger S. Haight

    Presents liberationist materials under some of the basic Christian doctrines including God, christology, Church and sacraments to show that this vision of truth has wide applications.

  • Overcoming Life's 7 Common Tragedies: Opportunities for Discovering God
    By Chris Benguhe

    She was miserable and confused, and wanted her husband back. Yet to her amazement, for the first time in a long time she began enjoying life. “My son and daughter came to stay one weekend, and we just had fun,” said Suzanne.

  • Re-visioning Mission: The Catholic Church and Culture in Postmodern America
    By Richard G. Cote

    This book explores mission and culture in the postmodern context of the United States by drawing upon the metaphor of marriage to illustrate the reciprocal relationship between faith and culture.

  • The Human Poetry of Faith: A Spiritual Guide to Life
    By Michael Paul Gallagher

    Offit went . I got out , feeling very relieved , and walked down the stairs to level three , using my house key to enter the corridor . Later I mentioned my escapade to some of the community . ' But don't you have the key ?

  • The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women
    By Laura Swan

    Presents the wisdom of many early women Christian leaders, discussing the meanings of their teachings and the spirituality of their lives, and also providing a time line, glossary, selected bibliography, calendar of feasts, and ordination ...

  • Life and Selected Revelations
    By Saint Bridget, Birgitta, Tore Nyberg

    Ed . James J. Walsh . Publications of the Writers Club of Washington 1.2 ( 1917 ) . [ Reprint 333 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY.

  • On Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Around the World
    By Jennifer Westwood

    Having pondered all this, Newby concluded: “There seemed to be no alternative but to go on. The fact that there was none rallied me considerably.” Taking a lesson from Newby, if you are in difficulties (other than some medical ...

  • What are They Saying about Paul and the Law?
    By Veronica Koperski

    Stanley B. Marrow , Review of Robert G. Hamerton - Kelly , Sacred Violence : Paul's Hermeneutic of the Cross ( Minneapolis , Minn . ... Paul : The Theology of the Apostle in Light of Jewish Religious History ( Philadelphia , Pa .

  • The Community of the Beloved Disciple
    By Raymond Edward Brown

    Eventually the struggle spread even to its own ranks. It was, in short, a community not unlike the Church of today. This book offers a different view of the traditional Johannine eagle.

  • Albert & Thomas: Selected Writings
    By Simon Tugwell

    Selected Writings Thomas Aquinas, Saint Albertus (Magnus), Saint Albertus Magnus Simon Tugwell. I. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THOMAS AQUINAS ' Thomas was born into a large , aristocratic family ? in 1226 , ' ten years after the establishment ...

  • Models of the Eucharist
    By Kevin W. Irwin

    Institution Narrative , Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite C ovenants is the title of the first half of a cycle of ... The covenants portrayed include Adam and Eve , Cain and Abel , Noah with his wife and " family , " and finally the ...