Books from Paulist Press

  • My Catholic Advent and Christmas Activity Book
    By Jennifer Galvin

    An Angel Appears to Joseph An angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and said , “ Joseph , son of David , do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife , for the child in her is from the Holy Spirit . She will bear a son , and you are to name ...

  • Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment
    By Edited by Richard Lennan and Nancy Pineda-Madrid

    In particular, hope is always the product of grace, of the Spirit at the heart of the church. ... Fora fuller discussion of clericalism, see George Wilson, Clericalism: The Deathof Priesthood (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press,2008).

  • The Ascetic Life: The Four Centuries on Charity

    It was then Adam through his disobedience and immersion in sense pleasure who gave reality to mft ' laW of voluptuous generation ' and of death in condemnation of nature.'282 The act of generation is not said to be sinful ; it may be ...

  • Women Shaping Theology
    By Mary Ann Hinsdale

    "In the 2004 Madeleva Lecture, Mary Ann Hinsdale uses the lens of her own life experience to tell the story of how visionary and prophetic women set in motion the important institutional structures that have allowed women to shape Catholic ...

  • Raymond E. Brown and the Catholic Biblical Renewal
    By Donald Senior, CP

    Keeler, William H., 242 Kelly, George A., 207,208,209, 210, 211, 212,309, 310,311 Kennedy, John F., 28 Kennedy, Robert, 28 Kermode, Frank, 314, 315 King, H. V., 309 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 28 Knox, John, 124 Koester, Craig, 273, ...

  • Jesus, I Feel Close to You
    By Denise Lohr Stuckey

    Book and caseside design by Lynn Else Caseside illustration by Phyllis Saroff Text copyright © 2005 by Denise Stuckey Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Phyllis Saroff All rights reserved . No part of this book may be reproduced or ...

  • Lift Up Your Hearts: Homilies for the 'A' Cycle
    By James A. Wallace, Robert P. Waznak, Guerric DeBona

    I was delighted when I read Chicago's Cardinal Bernardin's new initiative , the Catholic Common Ground Project , which issued the splendid statement : “ Called to Be Catholic : Church in a Time of Peril . ” The Cardinal and twenty ...

  • Mary of Magdala: What The Da Vinci Code Misses
    By Mary R. Thompson

    Examines written accounts of Mary Magdalene from her own era, including both canonical and apocryphal writings, points out fallacies and inaccuracies about her life and her significance, and highlights her role in early Christian history.

  • Imaging Life after Death: Love That Moves the Sun and Stars
    By Kathleen, Fischer

    It is called “The Golden Eagle”: A man found an eagle's egg and put it in the nest of a backyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the backyard chickens did, ...

  • Recurring Dream Symbols: Maps to Healing Your Past
    By Kathleen Sullivan

    My epiphany resulted from an image that rendered me helpless to resist : a magnificent eagle caught and dying in a monstrous spider's web . This experience began my conscious dream life . Extracting the eagle from the web became my life ...

  • What are They Saying about the Gospel of Thomas?
    By Christopher W. Skinner

    Portions of 33 sayings are coded in pink: 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 26, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 39, 41, 45, 47, 62,63, 64, 65, 69, 76, 78, 86, 89, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 109, and 113. 19. Miller, “The Jesus Seminar,” 111. 20. Charles L. Quarles ...

  • The Devil Can't Cook Spaghetti: Using Faith to Overcome Fear
    By Michael Essany

    Unfortunately , as a youngster I was not able to perceive the multitude of ways in which I was both blowing the situation out of proportion and failing to detect the many ways that things could have been worse if not for God's ...

  • The Devil Can't Cook Spaghetti: Using Faith to Overcome Fear
    By Michael Essany

    Part memoir, part survival guide, The Devil Can't Cook Spaghetti is a personal and humorous reflection on coping with the fears inherent to the journey from adolescence to adulthood.

  • Gathered and Sent: The Mission of Small Church Communities Today
    By Michael A. Cowan, Bernard J. Lee

    David Kauffman coordinated a program of new music written especially for small Christian communities by some of this countries leading composers ( including himself ) : Derek Campbell , Jaime Cortez , Kate Cuddy , Marty Haugen National ...

  • The Wisdom of Jesus: His Life and Teachings in Calligraphy and Illustration
    By Thomas J. Moore

    Thomas J. Moore , M.D. , has been a family practitioner in central Indiana since 1976 . He has been a member of the Carmel United Methodist Church for the past fifteen years . He has taught Bible studies since 1983 , initially with ...

  • The Word Made Flesh: An Overview of the Catholic Faith
    By Anthony J. Marinelli

    An Overview of the Catholic Faith Anthony J. Marinelli. Artwork by Larry Nolte . Nihil obstat : Rev. Francis J. Schneider Censor librorum May 8th , 1992 Imprimatur : Most Reverend John R. McGann , D.D. Bishop of Rockville Centre May ...

  • The Seventy Faces of Torah: The Jewish Way of Reading the Sacred Scriptures
    By Stephen M. Wylen

    Quoted in Lawrence Kushner and Kerry Olitzky, Sparks beneath the Surface (Northvale, NJ: J. Aronson, 1993), 192. 34. The William Saroyan play The Time of Your Life. LEVELS OF TORAH 95.

  • A Woman Wrapped in Silence
    By John W. Lynch

    A classic epic poem about Mary's fidelity and piety.

  • The Lawyer's Calling: Christian Faith and Legal Practice
    By Joseph G. Allegretti

    West Publishing Co. , 1986 ) , p . 580. The following quotation is from the same source . 5. Quoted in Allegretti , pp . 776-777 . 6. Rudolph J. Gerber , Lawyers , Courts , and Professionalism : The Agenda for Reform ( Westport , Conn .

  • Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God's World
    By Arthur R. Simon, David M. Beckmann

    10. Gregg Easterbrook. "Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity." The Atlantic 279, no. 1 (January 1997): 81. 11. Ibid., 75. 12. Lester Brown and Hal Kane, Full House (New York: Norton, 1994), 60. See also Lester Brown, "Higher Crop Yields?