One Happy Old Priest

"This is a decent account of Tom Sullivan’s eighty-plus years as a Catholic. Many males keep in mind their triumphs, others their disappointments, yet what remains with this chuffed priest are the unforeseen twists and turns occasions have taken alongside the best way. "

Finding Your Hidden Treasure

Crucial trip in lifestyles is the adventure inward--to the depths of our personal being. it's a trip we're all invited to make. It takes us past phrases and pictures into silence. The silence permits the stressed brain to develop into nonetheless and within the stillness we input a brand new global. We go back to our hearts.

The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

At the first anniversary of his election to the papacy, Leo the good stood prior to the meeting of bishops convening in Rome and forcefully asserted his privileged place because the inheritor of Peter the Apostle. This announcement marked the start of a robust culture: the Bishop of Rome may henceforth leverage the cult of St.

What Pope Francis Really Said: Words of Comfort and Challenge

His likeable, spontaneous, unguarded demeanour has drawn either estranged Catholics or even non-Catholics to take a better examine the Catholic Church. He has additionally wondered or even outraged the trustworthy who listened uncritically to the media’s interpretation of Pope Francis’s off-the-cuff remark on hot-button matters similar to abortion, marriage, divorce, the surroundings, immigration, and a bunch of alternative concerns.