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The police are baffled, and obviously, only one man can bring order to chaos and solve the affair: Fr. John Baptist. Together with his trusty gardener, Martin Feeney, their gallant, well-dressed, and often inebriate friends, the Knights Tumblar, and an eclectic supporting cast of cranks, street people, and, of course, the police, Fr. Baptist, having faced down witches, vampires, and grave-robbers, will take on mystery that truly emerges OUT OF THE DEPTHS! As in the cop-turned-priest-turned detective's previous outings, in this book good and evil are intertwined yet always at war, the preternatural may be no further than your living room, and you yourself may be casually living in the strangest of tales. A welcome return of one who is rapidly becoming one of modern America's best loved fictional sleuths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/out-of-the-depths_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!---------PARENT GUIDE AREA----------\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eParents Guide\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSexuality:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-none\"\u003eNone\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003e\u003c!-- LIST COMMENTS --\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eViolence \u0026amp; Gore:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-moderate\"\u003eModerate\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is one gruesome death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome people are bound in captivity and tortured when they don't comply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eProfanity:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-none\"\u003eNone\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003e\u003c!-- LIST COMMENTS --\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlcohol\/Drugs\/Smoking:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-moderate\"\u003eModerate\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a decent amount of drinking by the Knights Tumblar, but no one is explicitly drunk. 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Moreover, he does so joyfully. The message he brings us is good news; there is a way out of this world of sin and shadows, and our eternity can be unparalleled bliss. That being so, Mr. Biersach bids us, as would his patron St. Phillip Neri, to begin the quest for Paradise with hope, with happiness, and with humor. 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To learn truth, answers Margaret Summitt, and \"in so far as a story, poem, or play is true, it is literature - and the deeper the truth it gets at, the more Catholic it is. In other words, the more deeply the author pursues truth, the more likely he is to find his way to the mysteries and dogmas of the Church.\" Summitt explores authors like Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, and other great writers. This book will satisfy your curiosity about these writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/catholic-literature_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"_Toc336273915\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy should we study literature? Because it points toward truth, and because it helps us understand how to express certain truths in the medium of words. The words themselves, in literature, are chosen with great care toward making a certain effect on the imagination.  They show us something whole and entire—a story with a beginning, middle, and end, or a vision for us to contemplate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn so far as a story, poem, or play is true, it is literature—and the deeper the truth it gets at, the more Catholic it is.  In other words, the more deeply the author pursues truth, the more likely he is to find his way to the mysteries and dogmas of the Church.  This is what the Welsh author Arthur Machen, a master of fantastic literature, had in mind when he said:  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Literature is the expression, through the artistic medium of words, of the dogmas of the Catholic Church, and that which is in any way out of harmony with these dogmas is not literature,” for “Catholic dogma is merely the witness, under a special symbolism, of the enduring facts of human nature and the universe.” Arthur Machen, “Hieroglyphics: Notes on the Ecstatic in Literature” (1908)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTherefore literature must be in harmony with reason and natural law, at the least, and further it is expected to express some universal truth—such as the redemptive value of suffering, or the vanity of human desire.  To the extent that a writer tries to have it both ways—to arouse compassion for those who suffer, for example, but depicting suffering itself as evil—he is hedging his bets, and his literary work will be inferior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn saying this, I’m going against my training in modern literary criticism; two years toward a Master of Arts, and nine years toward a Doctor of Philosophy. In becoming a Doctor of Philosophy, I found that modern critics have been busy for the past twenty years deconstructing universal truth, with disastrous consequences for the teaching of literature.  This is probably the fundamental reason I’m no longer in the business.  I’m also stating right here that literature expresses ideas.  Meaning cannot be denied. When a modern poet says, as does Archibald MacLeish, that a poem should not mean, but be, he is asking the impossible of language.  Language does have meaning, because words have meaning.  At the opposite extreme, I used to hear from my freshman students, in their essays, that a poem can have an infinite number of meanings.  Well, I’m sorry, it’s not true.  A poem can have a range of meanings, but that range is always limited, and the meanings are interrelated.  An infinite number of meanings is as useless as no meaning at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe denial of universal meaning is probably the most pervasive evil that Catholic authors today, and Catholic teachers, have to struggle against. Nowadays college courses in literature tend to skew their reading lists, and their presentations, to cater to the self-esteem of selected ‘oppressed’ groups, instead of teaching those classics of literature that became classics for a reason: because there was universal truth in them.  And if they do teach those classics, very often modern teachers subvert their meanings to show that this supposed universal classic is really promoting the modern agenda of a particular ‘oppressed’ group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother pervasive evil is the lack of Catholic readers.  Until about 1960, there were Americans who were producing poetry, drama and fiction on explicitly Catholic themes, and these writers were being reviewed in Catholic periodicals, a sign that, at least back then, a Catholic audience was somewhere out there. Nowadays a Catholic author has to assume that his audience is going to be overwhelmingly non-Catholic, and increasingly ignorant of reason, natural law, and universal truth.  Flannery O’Connor said that the reason she used violence and shockingly grotesque images in her short stories was she had to hit her reader over the head to make him pay attention to Catholic truth.  And this was in the 1950s. Now that the modern world has become equally violent and grotesque, there is definitely a harvest of readers out there who want to escape it, or to be assured that their hope lies elsewhere than in the world.  If Catholic authors can get their works to this audience, then there is hope for Catholic literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will be like a Literature 101 course, seen through Catholic eyes.  I chose these literary works carefully for their emphasis on Catholic truth, and they were written by Catholics---with one exception, that being T.S. Eliot, who was an Anglo-Catholic. I included a range of literary genres, and ranged widely over historical periods, drawing mainly on literature written in the last century. Also, I have confined the scope to literature written in English, to simplify certain issues.  Historical background is essential, and so I have included a great deal of literary history, mostly about England, and some about the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI begin with epic poetry, the most ancient literary genre, using an example— G.K. Chesterton’s \u003cem\u003eBallad of the White Horse\u003c\/em\u003e—that was written in modern times.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom epic we proceed to drama, probably the second oldest genre, using T.S. Eliot’s \u003cem\u003eMurder in the Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e. Choosing a dramatic work for this course list was tricky, as I’ll explain when we get to the section on drama.  It has a lot to do with the subversive agenda of modernism, on the one hand, and on the other with the peculiar fact that the greatest dramas in English were being produced just when the Catholic Faith in England was being most cruelly suppressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMurder in the Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e, which deals with the martyrdom of St. Thomas à Becket, will prepare us for Chaucer’s \u003cem\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, which revolves around a group of medieval pilgrims on their way to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. Our text here is the last tale, “The Parson’s Tale,” (in modern English) and selections from the verse Prologue.  These are available in excellent modern translations, although I would encourage you to take a look at the language they were written in, which is called Middle English, and dates from about 1066 to about 1500.  “The Parson’s Tale,” by the way, was written in prose, and is almost never taught in college Chaucer courses—for reasons that will become clear when we read it.  Yet if the college instructor does not deal with “The Parson’s Tale,” the philosophical impact of the whole is lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in medieval times, when England was Catholic, the Church actively promoted all the arts. Drama in particular was a catechetical tool, and during penitential seasons the Church presented dramas depicting the mysteries of the Faith, and the consequences of sin.  These are broadly termed mystery and morality plays.  \u003cem\u003eThe Second Shepherds’ Play\u003c\/em\u003e, which is funny as well as instructive, was written by a priest in Wakefield, Yorkshire. \u003cem\u003eEveryman\u003c\/em\u003e is a somber allegory dealing with the Four Last Things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing drama, we’ll read some Counter-Reformation, baroque Nativity poems, written by Catholics during that period of persecution.  These are “The Burning Babe,” and “In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God.”  A well-known lyric poem from the Victorian period (1800s, or nineteenth century), Francis Thompson’s “The Hound of Heaven,” was very popular in the United States at the turn of the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe’ll end with modern fiction.  Two novels—\u003cem\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e by Evelyn Waugh, and \u003cem\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/em\u003e by Flannery O’Connor, broken up by a shorter work, J.R.R. Tolkien’s delightful allegory “Leaf by Niggle.”  This is a Catholic allegory, which will afford us a chance to look back at the medieval allegory \u003cem\u003eEveryman\u003c\/em\u003e and discuss allegory in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the way, \u003cem\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel for more mature readers.  It treats themes of homosexuality, drunkenness, and adultery in an orthodox manner, but if you have doubts about this subject matter, perhaps it may help you to read the chapter in this book before reading the novel itself.  Parents, too, are encouraged to read this chapter.    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrideshead\u003c\/em\u003e and O’Connor’s \u003cem\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/em\u003e are both about conversion, and the victory of God’s grace over modern evils. \u003cem\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/em\u003e is brutally funny in its depiction of the absurd and grotesque condition of modern America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eQuotes\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe denial of universal meaning is probably the most pervasive evil that Catholic authors today, and Catholic teachers, have to struggle against. Nowadays college courses in literature tend to skew their reading lists, and their presentations, to cater to the self-esteem of selected ‘oppressed’ groups, instead of teaching those classics of literature that became classics for a reason: because there was universal truth in them. And if they do teach those classics, very often modern teachers subvert their meanings to show that this supposed universal classic is really promoting the modern agenda of a particular ‘oppressed’ group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in medieval times, when England was Catholic, the Church actively promoted all the arts. Drama in particular was a catechetical tool, and during penitential seasons the Church presented dramas depicting the mysteries of the Faith, and the consequences of sin. These are broadly termed mystery and morality plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Protestant epic poem, \u003cem\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/em\u003e, was written in the 1600s by the English Puritan poet John Milton. When I read it, I found it dull, and rather dry, and now I know why. Not because it is an imitation of classical epic, but because it is an example of how heretical dogma leads to inferior literature. The subject matter is the Creation and the Fall of Man. Milton’s problem is that, given that he holds heretical beliefs about the innate depravity of Man since the Fall, he can’t really give Adam the hope of becoming a saint in Heaven, as Catholics believe he is. Milton’s Adam is therefore not a very interesting character. But since an epic needs a hero, and since Milton’s character Satan is so much more interesting than his Adam, then by default, by way of filling the vacuum, his readers, especially modern ones, make Satan the “real” hero of \u003cem\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margaret Robe Summitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35374683022,"sku":"9780979160035","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/products\/catholic-literature_reg.jpg?v=1582272473"},{"product_id":"st-joes-remarkable-journey-paul-barra","title":"St. Joe's Remarkable Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiven the choice between the secular fundamentalism of public schools and the watered-down bashful Catholicism of today's parochial schools, it's no surprise that more families are turning to alternative means for educating their children in the Faith. However, neither the government nor Catholic archdioceses are willing to cede their control over education, and thus have implemented their own measures to prevent families from taking the matter into their own hands. St. Joe's is a real-life story of a group of parents, who after many obstacles, were finally able to control their kid's education by forming their own Catholic high school under the local archdiocese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/st-joes-remarkable-journey_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePreface\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePREFACE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In 1991, a group of Catholic parents in Greenville were desperate. Their children were beginning to graduate from local parochial schools and there were no Catholic high schools within 100 miles of their homes. Their response to this deficit stirred up a firestorm; friends called it \u003cem\u003echutzpah\u003c\/em\u003e, others called it foolish. They themselves called it visionary. They started their own Catholic school, without clergy support and against the wishes of their diocese. They had to believe their plan was visionary. Since they had invested so much of their futures in the place, they had to believe they were doing the right thing. It was unnerving to consider the ramifications of being wrong, especially since their children were the trial horses in this grand experiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the secondary school they started is not Catholic in name only. St. Joseph's Catholic School is a traditional Catholic institution loyal to the magisterium of the Church and dedicated to forming the spiritual character of its students in the true faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe parents who opened the now-thriving school in 1993 talk about their decision then as a leap of faith; it was also the financial equivalent of going to sea in a dinghy during hurricane season. But considering the circumstances and their profound faith, they considered the risk necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It was frustrating. We got shot down more than once,” said Barbara McGrath, one of the founders of St. Joseph’s Catholic School. “But I’d been educated in Catholic schools and knew what a gift it would be for my children.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1993, there were 3 Catholic secondary schools in the entire state of South Carolina, one in the coastal see city of Charleston (the entire state is one diocese), one in the capital Columbia in the middle of the state, and one tiny missionary school for disadvantaged youth run by a religious order of nuns in Sumter, 30 miles southeast of Columbia. The state is 31,000 square miles in area and there was no Catholic education available after eighth grade in the western half of all that real estate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBalancing those glum statistics, however, is the painful fact that South Carolina is less than four percent Catholic. (editor’s note: the notoriously hard to compute Hispanic population may actually double that figure in 2008.) Years ago, when the planning about St. Joe's turned serious, that percentage was even lower. But demographics are more than just overall percentages. Inland rural counties in the state, across the sand hills of the Pee Dee and the peach groves of the Ridge, often have no Catholic presence of any sort and a mere scattering of Catholic residents. The historic coastal city of Charleston, on the other hand, is ten percent Catholic, including its long-time mayor, Joe Riley. Its diocesan high school has a student population of nearly 1,000. And in the Upstate, in the Piedmont Deanery of the diocese, there is a substantial chunk of Catholicism also. The areas along the Anderson-Greenville-Spartanburg corridor in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains contain 12 Catholic parishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany members of those Upstate parishes work for the hundreds of companies that located in the Greenville area because of the network of highways, the available work force, amenable climate and low housing costs. Once a prosperous textile manufacturing area, the Upstate was reborn in the 1990s with the influx of such foreign giants as Michelin and BMW. Clemson University with commercial and state partners has just opened an enormous international automotive engineering research facility within a stone’s throw of  the private, Catholic high school these parents started and BMW announced a major expansion of its manufacturing facilities in March 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNurtured by this rich blend of money and intellect, private schools thrive as alternatives to generally mediocre public institutions. But there was no Catholic secondary school until 1993 when nine parents decided to risk their money, their reputations and their children’s futures by launching one. What was then known as St. Joseph’s High School opened with thirteen ninth graders, no athletic programs and no real campus in a house rented to them for $1 a year by a neighborhood Lutheran church. It was home schooling with a professional faculty. Most of the teachers were part-time or volunteers at first, according to McGrath. One of the first students, Allison Moon, wrote about her venture in a school newsletter on the occasion of the 15\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e anniversary of the now-successful school: “There were three classrooms, in what had formerly been a living room and two bedrooms. The other bedroom contained a soda machine, and was affectionately dubbed ‘the student lounge.’ The Principal’s Office, with its glass doors looking into the main classroom, closely resembled the dining room it had once been. To cap off this ‘one-room-schoolhouse’ motif, there was a picnic table and tire swing in the back yard. Some of my best memories of high school are from hanging out in that backyard with all of my classmates.” Even though the pupils and teachers were enthusiastic about their experience, the odds against success seemed huge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The real heroes were not the founders but the parents who put their children in the first year. That took courage,” McGrath said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe students attended local parishes for Friday mass and the YMCA for physical education classes; they seemed satisfied with their limited resources and tiny class sizes. They were a homogeneous lot, bright and ambitious. That attracted more of the same as the years crept by. SJHS added a grade each year and graduated its first class is 1997. The school’s board of trustees, which still manages the institution today, insisted on an authentic Catholic milieu and high academic standards. But a massive struggle for existence ensued - and it was not the financial obstacles that the school’s founders had anticipated and, indeed, faced on a daily basis; another real antagonist turned out to be the very organization they first went to for help, the Diocese of Charleston. Bureaucrats at the chancery, including the superintendent of education, fought the private venture strenuously. Angry words flew, ugly letters were exchanged and area priests took sides, until they were finally banned from offering the sacraments to the students at St. Joe’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How can we explain this to our children?” a tearful parent asked the bishop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut these lay people, bolstered by the support of a few courageous priests, soldiered on and by the time St. Joe’s purchased its present buildings and 36-acre campus shortly after its first commencement exercises, the school was flourishing as its reputation as an academically rigorous, traditional Catholic school blossomed. Enrollment increased in great bounds each year. Its annual tuition of about $8,000 was and is considered moderate for a first-class private prep school in the Piedmont of South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one canker that continued to affect the flowering of this popular institute was the lack of a diocesan imprimatur. Fearful of financial entanglement in a period of litigation and increasing ministry costs, and beset on all sides by the bureaucrats mentioned above, the Bishop of Charleston still refused to give the school his blessing. Since nothing can legitimately be called Catholic without the say-so of the diocesan ordinary, according to canon law, St. Joseph’s was reduced to promoting itself as “a private school in the Catholic tradition.” Some diocesan officials in Charleston and some local clergy at the time thought the new school was too conservative; others apparently opposed the idea of a Catholic school that they did not control; and nobody there wanted to inherit the expense of another high school by default if the Upstate school could not make it financially. Even with its substantial tuition levies, St. Joseph’s runs an annual operating deficit of nearly half a million dollars. Sport celebrities such as Lou Holtz and Tommy Lasorda help with fund-raising, but it remains an enduring effort for the school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We have a full-time advancement office, just to raise enough money every year to stay in the black,” said Keith Kiser, now entering his eighth year as headmaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 2000, floating millions of dollars in bond issues, the school renovated and expanded yet again, this time in a year of high expectations. A new diocesan bishop had been ordained the year before and had been learning about St. Joseph’s as part of his ministry to the Piedmont Deanery, which is much closer geographically to the Diocese of Charlotte in North Carolina than to Charleston. In that year, one that is considered the most important in the school’s history after the inaugural one, he came to the Greenville campus. The Most Rev. Robert J. Baker signed a momentous agreement with St. Joseph’s: he gave the school his official blessing and promised to guide it in matters of the faith and the school promised to maintain its educational and fiscal independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArea priests were no longer hesitant about ministering to the school, so the sacraments of the Eucharist and Reconciliation became a regular part of campus life. The school built a Blessed Sacrament Chapel, open whenever the building is occupied. Still, St. Joseph’s realized it needed a chaplain on its faculty. Enter Dwight Longenecker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFather Longenecker is a former Anglican priest who converted, with his wife and children, to Catholicism. He’s a well-known theological writer and speaker who wished to relocate to the United States from his adopted home in Great Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It was a perfect fit for us,” Longenecker said. “Plus, we always wanted to send our children to a private school that is both affordable and non-classist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSt. Joe’s offers reduced tuition for children of faculty members and staffers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBishop Baker approved Longenecker’s request for faculties in the Roman rite in early 2006 and forwarded the paperwork to Rome; the chaplain was ordained a Catholic priest in November 2006, and SJCS became the first Catholic school in South Carolina with a full-time priest chaplain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe school, meanwhile, continued to progress. It opened its own middle school in 2003, an immediate success, and became known by its present name, St. Joseph’s Catholic School. The middle school has doubled its enrollment every year since and had a waiting list for the 2007-2008 academic year. With 250 students, the upper school became a rising power in the S.C. Independent Schools Association, winning state championships in soccer, cross-country, wrestling, swimming, math, Quiz Bowl, Student Council and in the S. C. Junior Academy of Science competitions. The SJCS Knights are a power in interscholastic rugby. The average SAT score in 2006-2007 was 1212 (compared to the SC average of 939), and more than a dozen seniors have so far made the grade as National Merit Scholarship finalists, ranking them in the top one percent nationally. More than 60 percent of SJCS’s 200 middle schoolers qualify for the Duke University TIP (Talent Identification Program) each year, based on SAT scores in seventh grade. The middle school grades, 6, 7 and 8\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e, are taught in single-gender classes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2005, 2006 and again in 2007, the Catholic High School Honor Roll recognized SJCS as one of the 50 Best Catholic High Schools in the United States. St. Joseph’s ranked in the top 20 academically. Every graduate goes to a four-year college and many are accepted to the most selective institutions of higher learning. Nearly 80 percent of students taking Advanced Placement courses passed the AP exam in their discipline (104 out of 134 AP classes taken in 2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith all these athletic and academic successes, the school administration fights hard to temper the influence of secular society on its pupils, 80 percent of whom are Catholic. Besides weekly mass, where the students chant the Sanctus and the Pater Noster in Latin, and daily religion classes, SJCS has also implemented a household program as a way to carrying out the school’s duty to act \u003cem\u003ein loco parentis\u003c\/em\u003e. The program was Kiser’s idea as the school began to grow too large to be managed any longer as a big family; he described its evolution in terms of the partnership between parents and school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We wanted someone on the faculty or staff to accompany each student, as an individual, from freshman year through graduation, to help with his or her academics and goals and problems. It’s a matter of noticing more than anything,” the headmaster said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne school adult, most often a teacher, is assigned as Household Dean. He or she stays with the one single-gender household (each replete with colorful dynastic names, such as Gallowglass, the Golden Swans and the Black Falconers) permanently; each household is an equal mix from each of the four secondary school grades. All assemblies, intramural competitions and service projects are carried out by household, one male often paired with its sister female household of the same name. Households are normally from 12 to 16 strong. Since the households meet as home rooms in the morning and one other time each day for chapel call or study hall or some other activity – even if it’s no more than free time – the dean gets to know the students in his household much better than the students in his classes. After all, the dean is with each student daily for four years, so he or she gets to notice each one as Kiser had hoped. The household members bond with each other and with their dean. Seniors, at least in theory, provide leadership and mentoring for the underclassmen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParents soon learn to call or email the deans to collect assignments for sick days, ask teachers for their student's averages or to intercede when directions are misinterpreted or other minor pupil-teacher disputes or contretemps arise. Teachers regularly visit each other about their household charges. If someone’s grades begin to slip in math, for instance, the math teacher will generally give the student’s dean a heads-up. If academic problems become significant, the household dean will arrange and facilitate parent-teacher meetings during faculty office hours or during planning periods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHouseholds serve a societal function as well, helping incoming students to fit into the culture of the school. Kiser gave an example of one youngster in his own household who didn’t seem to find his niche during his entire freshman year and remained an outsider. He didn’t play sports, wasn’t gifted enough to compete on academic teams and was too shy for SJCS’s extensive programs in campus ministry and performing arts. He was not happy at the school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In fact, he didn’t want to come back for his sophomore year,” Kiser said. “As his dean, I was chatting with his mother one day and she told me that he was a budding artist. I passed that on to (the chair of the Fine Arts Dept.) and she got him involved.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe student capped off his career at St. Joe’s by designing and painting a mammoth wall mural in a new middle school hallway that generated high acclaim; he graduated and entered a well-known college arts program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe headmaster said that the household program was not yet in its definitive form, and the same might be said of St. Joseph’s Catholic School. But from the most modest of beginnings the institution has become a force in South Carolina’s Catholic community and continues to grow as that community does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat lessons can we learn from this apparent success story? Are lay-driven private Catholic schools the way to preserve our real faith at the secondary school level?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will use the experience of St. Joe's to illustrate the trials and tribulations of starting such a school - it might even be used as a template in areas of the country that are seeing enormous growth in their Catholic population even as dioceses are reluctant to take on other expenses and as religious teaching orders are reduced in size and are generally closing schools rather than opening new ones. The St. Joe's experience might also be interesting to parents who want more than the watered down Catholicism that many so-called Catholic schools offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a fairy tale, however. Opening and maintaining a private Catholic school proved to be an enduring challenge in many ways, but once again, the experience of these daring parents - who still control their school - might prove beneficial to others dreaming of such a venture themselves. It's a great story, even if you're a grandparent like me and are more interested in how our faith is going to survive in this era of Cafeteria Catholicism and rampant secular humanism than in educating our children any longer. I hope young people will take heart and learn to appreciate both what parents risk for their well-being and what daring students can achieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the cover-ups and breaking scandals of recent years, no Catholic should be surprised to learn that men and women of faith who run dioceses share the same fallen nature as the rest of us. This work is not meant as an exposé, even if some pastors and diocesan bureaucrats will be unhappy to read about themselves and their malfunctions, but it does illustrate how people with vision can make practical plodders seem trite and tired. Some of the leaders of St. Joseph’s Catholic School and others in the Catholic community of South Carolina have voiced concern, when they heard about this book being written, that the dispute between diocese and private school will make the Church look bad. I don’t know if that’s possible after what we’ve been through recently with the unconscionable hiding of sex abusers in the presbyterate, but I do wish to be explicit here: some officials of the Diocese of Charleston opposed the establishment of St. Joseph’s Catholic School for personal reasons. Some thought, and undoubtedly still think, the school to be too traditional, too Catholic; some pastors surely have fallen victim to the sense of righteousness that comes with being the sole authority in their parish fiefdoms for a long time, have forgotten their assigned role as servants of the faithful and think that lay people ought to stay in their proper place; some Curia members resented the loss of control that a private Catholic entity on their turf represented; and other diocesan workers may have been turned off by personality clashes with one or the other of the founders. These rationales for arguing and fighting against a needed Catholic high school are examples of human shortcomings, the sins of our original parents visited on us. Those foibles have nothing to do with God’s Church, however. All the people who started and now run St. Joseph’s Catholic School remain faithful to the magisterium of the Catholic Church, loyal and obedient to their bishop, respectful and grateful to priests, observant participants in the sacramental life of the Church. They harbor no overt bitterness, just gratitude that things worked out for the better eventually. And St. Joseph’s Catholic School today enjoys the support and encouragement of area pastors, even when its middle school competes with their parochial schools for students.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven in the wider schema of things, the Diocese of Charleston and the private school are cooperating partners in the education of South Carolina Catholic children. If non-Catholics read this, I trust that they will be open-minded enough to recognize this current alliance and comprehend that the past dispute was an example of human interaction and had nothing to do with our faith. After all, Job bargained with God and Peter denied the Messiah three times. The end result in those biblical cases, and the end result of the SJCS dispute, was an even stronger devotion and closer allegiance to the faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fact remains that the Diocese of Charleston once opposed this independent Catholic school bitterly, going so far as to issue a decree to area priests forbidding them from ministering to St. Joseph’s in any way. We’ll learn the rationale behind that position. Against all odds, with their own Church seemingly intent on destroying their grand effort, these doughty lay Catholics persevered. That is not to say that the parents who started this fine adventure were idealists; they protected themselves and did their homework, as we shall see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're interested in starting a Catholic high school for your own children, then this story might be a good place to start. You could learn from the St. Joseph's family, from their courage, their foresight, and from their mistakes. If you want to read an exciting, true-life adventure, this might fill the bill. If you're an authentic Catholic, this story will thrill you. It might even inspire you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul A. Barra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35374740750,"sku":"9780979160042","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/products\/st-joes_reg.jpg?v=1582531315"},{"product_id":"puritans-empire-charles-coulombe","title":"Puritan's Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Catholic Perspective on American History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistory is the key to understanding men-whether as nations, families, or individuals. For Catholics, history has an even higher purpose beside. 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To exercise their patriotism, they must work for the conversion of the United States; to do this effectively, they must understand the forces and events which brought forth not only the religion of Americanism and the country itself, but also the sort of Catholicism which, in 300 years, failed so dismally to bring this conversion about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book attempts to reinterpret the better known episodes of our history in accordance with the Faith, and to point up lesser-known details which will give factual proof of the truth of this reinterpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/puritans-empire_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblarhouse.com\/pages\/the-appendix-for-puritans-empire\"\u003eAppendix for Puritan's Empire\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eQuotes\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe combination of Puritanism, blind optimism, and materialism... would produce a people infinitely manipulable; any leader who knew how to push the right buttons would get majority support no matter what he stood for, or how much of remaining popular freedom would be eroded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have come to accept the notion that, so long as the government is \"nice\", it has a right to all the power necessary to run the country. The idea that a people might run themselves has become foreign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut where a King is an individual, and may be held accountable for his wielding of God's authority, the people are too numerous to be responsible for anything. Further, since their desires rather than God's are to be the standard against which all must be judged, anything the majority appears to wish must be good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Charles A. 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Before long, she uncovers shocking and sinister facts about the choir members.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/death-in-the-choir_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!---------PARENT GUIDE AREA----------\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eParents Guide\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSexuality:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-moderate\"\u003eModerate\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's a lot of light chatter with jokes and double entendres. For example when one woman is describing the physique of another, she says \"Her cup definitely overfloweth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's chatter and speculation over whether a character is homosexual or heterosexual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA priest loathes a certain woman who goes to confession because she goes into detail when it comes to her sexual sins. He nicknames her Lady Chatterley. Nothing graphic is mentioned. All we know is the priest's complaint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eViolence \u0026amp; Gore:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-none\"\u003eNone\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003e\u003c!-- LIST COMMENTS --\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eProfanity:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-none\"\u003eNone\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003e\u003c!-- LIST COMMENTS --\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlcohol\/Drugs\/Smoking:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-none\"\u003eNone\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003e\u003c!-- LIST COMMENTS --\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eNOTE: This guide may be incomplete.\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Lorraine V. 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Most secular governments oppose her to greater or lesser degrees; the Mass, her most solemn rite, has in many places been turned into a collection of strange ceremonies where irreverence vies with sheer banality to conceal the awe-filled reality of what is actually happening - the descent of Jesus Christ Himself into the bread and wine on the altar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere remains an enormous question which few are anxious to tackle: why bother with the Church at all? Why is she here? In \u003cem\u003eDesire and Deception\u003c\/em\u003e, Charles A. Coulombe makes the case that the role Christ first envisaged for her - that of the sole means of Salvation for mankind - has been completely obscured in the minds of the vast majority of Catholics today. He gives the history of how this came about, explains that this obscurity is at the root of the Church's current internal dilemmas, and shows that Catholics must regain their sense of mission if they are to fulfill Christ's mandate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/desire-and-deception_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eQuotes\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Modernists] have succeeded in blotting out former solemn pronouncements from the popular mind with the newer ones, proclaiming as development of doctrine what was actually repudiation. Unfortunately, at every stage of this process, there have been folk who, knowing what the Church actually teaches, have resisted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a hallmark of the modern mind that it dismisses with labels anything it cannot overcome intellectually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Charles A. Coulombe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35374891022,"sku":"9780984236510","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/products\/desire-and-deception.jpg?v=1582274462"},{"product_id":"the-white-cockade-charles-coulombe","title":"The White Cockade","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are many wonderful books in the world that address and teach how a good Catholic should think. However, it is important that a person not only think like a Catholic, but feel like a Catholic. Mr. Coulombe's poems convey the feelings that millennial Catholics regularly have: feelings of angst regarding the future, but also that of hope; feelings of righteousness and feelings of awe over the majesty and wonders of Catholic tradition. The White Cockade is filled with bite-sized poems that will inspire you and touch you on an emotional level.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/the-white-cockade_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePreface\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePREFACE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTWENTY YEARS AFTER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePoetry is a young man’s game. That is not to say that older people (and women) can’t write fine poetry. They can and do. But there is something about a man’s youth --- his late teens and early twenties that lends itself to poetry. As my friend Richard Cowden-Guido puts it, “It is easy to be interesting when you are young; you’ll spend the rest of your life struggling against being a bore!” It is obvious that most of us are not equal to the struggle. Dr. Johnson preferred the sins of youth to those of age, because they are not coupled with sanctimony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt is not merely that one is physically stronger or more attractive in one’s youth than he will likely become; it is that everything is new --- romance, politics, even war. The blush is not yet off the apple. Ideas are important, as are art, conversation, wine and moonlight. Who has not had an all-night bull session in college, at the end of which the world’s problems are solved? When you are young you believe that, given the right chance, you can conquer the world!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAnd what a world it is --- filled with joy and horror, with wrongs to be righted and avenged, with glorious causes to be fought for! “To be young was very Heaven!” Shelley said of the age of Revolution in the 18th century, and so, in some aspects, it always is for the young. Their ardor and passion can lead them on the High Crusade --- or into the Red Guards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBut the flip side is one of fear and doubt. What is my place in the world? Will I ever find it? Will I grow old without success? Will my life be a waste? Does she really love me? Is she the one? Will I ever find love? --- and on and on. Middle Age may be duller and less fiery, but generally, for good or ill, those questions have been answered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSo it is that the poems in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe White Cockade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewere all written in my youth; some when I was a cadet at New Mexico Military Institute, others when I was struggling as a comic in Hollywood, still others when I was a novice writer looking for my voice. In earlier days, the great shadow was the Mordor-like Soviet Union; in the later poems, the joy and anticipation launched by the fall of that “Evil Empire” was uppermost, and for very different reasons I felt like Shelley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAll of that has changed, since, and both of the political sources of fear and elation have passed away, taking my youth with them. This writer has generated oceans of print since he penned the lines you are about to read, and his contents and discontents are those of Middle Age. Yet, when reading the afterword, he finds his views in art, religion, and politics have not changed. As the Russian song says, “oh my friend, we’re older, but no wiser, for in our hearts our dreams are still the same.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIndeed they are. I’ve not written poetry in two decades, but the impulses that inspired these remain, and I still enjoy reading these. More importantly, many of those who were infants when these words written are young men now, and quite a few profess to have been inspired by them. A higher compliment cannot be paid to a poet. Every book of poetry is an adventure shared by the reader and the writer; and so we begin. But I will send you off a bit from one of my favorite anonymous ballads “Tom O’ Bedlam’s Song,” that epitomizes to me the quest that all of us who live must undertake:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWith a host of furious fancies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhereof I am commander,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWith a burning spear and a horse of air,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTo the wilderness I wander.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBy a knight of ghostes and shadowes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI summon'd am to tourney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTen leagues beyond the wild world's end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMethinks it is no journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCharles A. 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All the while, Terry Cross's novel embraces love and beauty while blending in the foundation of the Catholic faith. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/fisher-of-men_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!---------PARENT GUIDE AREA----------\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eParents Guide\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSexuality:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-none\"\u003eNone\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003e\u003c!-- LIST COMMENTS --\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eViolence \u0026amp; Gore:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-moderate\"\u003eModerate\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lot of people disappear, and it is implied that a sea monster ate them, but there is nothing graphic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eProfanity:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-none\"\u003eNone\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003e\u003c!-- LIST COMMENTS --\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlcohol\/Drugs\/Smoking:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-none\"\u003eNone\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003e\u003c!-- LIST COMMENTS --\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eNOTE: This guide may be incomplete.\n\u003ch5\u003eAuthor Interview\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1.) How do your incorporate Catholic elements into the story of Fisher of Men?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeing a convert to Catholicism, I’m well aware of the misunderstandings about Catholic Christianity that negatively influence our non-Catholic Christian brothers and sisters.  I wrote Fisher of Men as an ecumenical Christian novel that portrayed the Catholic Faith in a favorable, Christian light without being pushy. For example: the name of Terry’s church in Hawaii and the dialog about St. Francis of Assisi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2.) The main character, Terry Ho, is your namesake, albeit female. What prompted that decision?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’ve always just really liked the name -Terry.  I remembered a friend from years ago who had a Hawaiian wife, and they had named their daughter Kanani (pretty one). Then, from my early surfing days pouring over \u003cem\u003eSurfer Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e I remembered pictures of Derek Ho and Michael Ho surfing the North Shore, and presto!  We have the real-cool name of Terry Kanani Ho!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3.) What inspired you to write this book?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt all began in 1975 while I was a commercial abalone diver. I experimented with writing down some of the day-to-day wild experiences of that job and sending them to my mother and sister.  They loved what I wrote, so I wondered if I could put a story together that my non-believing friends at the local dive shop might read and thereby think about God, even if for only the time they were reading it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4.) 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He critiqued some of my work, and I would pour through his Revolution at Sea Trilogy and try to pattern my points of view, rhythm of action, and overall appearance on what I saw in his books.  And I owe great thanks to Francine Rivers who took the time to read Fisher of Men and gave me the encouragement to plow ahead when the writing got tough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Terry Cross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35374938702,"sku":"9780984236558","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/products\/fisher-of-men_reg.jpg?v=1582495322"},{"product_id":"the-parsons-tale-geoffrey-chaucer","title":"The Parson's Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Parson's Tale is the final chapter of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Because of its profound Catholic content, this tale has been selectively excluded from most modern versions of Canterbury Tales. 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Coulombe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eVideo\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yu34AE8MGSE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Geoffrey Chaucer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35374956942,"sku":"9780984236527","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/products\/parsons-tale_reg.jpg?v=1582696938"},{"product_id":"interlander-thomas-ward","title":"Interlander","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Sam Moorcroft clambers out of the observation trench and walks into the Ely Project enclosure he knows that his life has changed forever. If he is caught the penalty will be chemical curtailment or worse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam survives on his wits among the enclosure subjects. He works alongside them in their mills and farms, drinks with them in their pubs, celebrates with them in their festivals honouring their strange gods, and eventually falls in love with Smith, the tough young woman who takes him in and cares for him. No one guesses Sam’s secret, that he from the beyonds where the demon lives and where no one decent would dare to travel, even in their thoughts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day, however, Sam is snatched back to the world he came from, a world of horrors worse even than the demon, where the state thinks nothing of holding men and women in the subtle slavery of the enclosure for the sake of science and entertainment. Far from being punished, Sam is offered the opportunity to return to enclosure again and again in the service of the government. The offer, to join the elite company of Interlanders who walk in two worlds, is overwhelmingly tempting. Sam must decide quickly who he loves and who he is prepared to betray.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo live your life in terror of the demon is terrible, to become the demon is much, much worse…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/interlander_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!---------PARENT GUIDE AREA----------\u003e WARNING: SPOILERS INCLUDED\n\u003ch5\u003eParents Guide\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSexuality:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-moderate\"\u003eModerate\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA boy spies a girl's naked back. Sex is implied several times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eViolence \u0026amp; Gore:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-moderate\"\u003eModerate\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA forced abortion is referred to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eProfanity:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-moderate\"\u003eModerate\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003eSome British cuss words are used.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pg-cat\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlcohol\/Drugs\/Smoking:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"fiction-moderate\"\u003eModerate\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pg-comments\"\u003eOne of the main characters drinks in a pub. In another instance, he uses a drug with a girl, to their detriment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eNOTE: This guide may be incomplete.\n\u003ch5\u003eFirst Chapter\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter One\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDr. Hilary Lynch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat kind of individuals are emotionally and mentally fit to walk in two worlds? And how does one set about discovering and recruiting such people?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOnce the gun smoke of 1989 had cleared, these questions presented themselves to the Interland Security Service with considerable urgency. I quickly understood that my long association with Sebastian would not be enough to guarantee the Service’s constitutional position. As guardian of the new sophiocratic state, Seb had a wide range of interest groups to satisfy, and it was inevitable that the loyalty of old colleagues would be taken for granted and their interests overlooked. The Service, I realised, was on its own and, given the planned expansion of the enclosure, it needed to recruit in earnest if it was to maintain its position and privileges within the new government.   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn my own mind I was clear from the start that potential recruits should be very bright indeed. Our work is so extremely delicate and so complex that it would be downright dangerous for us to carry any deadwood. But I also knew that simply being intelligent was not going to be enough. We needed young people with a degree of daring and native cunning—which isn’t quite the same thing as intelligence—as well as endurance and a certain quality of dreaminess or playfulness. I still find this last quality difficult to define, although I believe I know it when I see it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore than this, however, I came to understand that we needed people who were, at some fundamental level, unhappy. I have written elsewhere that the experience of crossing the boundary is profoundly liberating, and so it is. But it is not only liberating. To slip between worlds day after day, to form relationships within the enclosure, to feel the full spectrum of human emotions within these relationships and yet to know that these feelings are at best only half real: experience has taught me that these things are simply not possible for people who are basically at peace with themselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe certainly weren’t looking for bores in the Service—we all still enjoyed our drink and our parties too much to want to be saddled with a lot of misery guts—but we didn’t really want ordinary, happy people, either.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFortunately, a means of selecting suitable candidates quickly presented itself; in fact, it was staring us in the face. 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Solange Hertz explains: \"Given the present state of society, at the polls he rarely finds a candidate to vote for in good conscience, but plenty against, thereby earning himself a reputation for irremediable contrariness on most any issue before the public. In casual conversation his is nearly always the minority opinion, especially if it was once held by the vast majority of educated people in the civilized world and never seriously contested until relatively recently... Offering the only positive remedy to the faltering social machinery, [traditional Catholicism] will appear negative at every level. Whatever reconstruction it proposes is labeled destruction. It is accused of undermining every hope for the future by wholesale retreat into the past when its only objective is to set things straight and get them running properly again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguably the most outspoken traditional Catholic writer of the 20th century, Solange Hertz is one of the foremost defenders of Catholic tradition. In On the Contrary, Hertz tackles topics including the defamation of Christopher Columbus, sex, gender roles, masonry, Americanism, Pope John Paul II, and modern liturgical developments. Hertz's zeal will rub off on you as she vocalizes and outlines the fight that we as Catholics are all involved in. \u003cspan\u003eForeword by Charles A. 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The first and largest section outlines the history of world events which have shaped our world and have ultimately led to the current crisis in the Church. The second part discusses changes in the approach to the Mass, the Sacraments, and Christian life as a whole. Mr. Coulombe closes the book by explaining how a person can safeguard the integrity of his faith amidst all the challenges of today's world. Everyman Today Call Rome is a historical narrative that is loaded with wit and insights in typical Coulombe fashion that you will not want to miss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/everyman-today-call-rome_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eQuotes\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany priests, in these new age days, would prefer to relinquish their mystic power. They would rather be presidents of the assembly than offerers of the altar; initiators than baptisers; counselors than confessors. So be it. But let them give up also their salaries and sinecures, their cooks and Cadillacs. If we laymen forced them to consider, the question not in terms of theology, but in terms of revenue, orthodoxy would bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe time is coming when we young people will hold the Church in our hands. If we are to do our duty to Christ the King, we must accept the challenge of Catholic reconstruction. To do that, we must each of us acquire the education denied us. We could not help being robbed; we can blame only ourselves if we remain poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bebop “rebel without a cause” attitude affected every sector of Catholic practice in the 1960s and 70s, and is with us yet. But by trivialising the Church in their care, our predecessors did more than gratify their own egos. They made the Church appear to be less than worth dying for, and thus less than worth living for. And in doing so they lost the greater part of our generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is to our generation a nihilism: that is, a nothingism. For us, there are no absolutes, no morals, no vices, and no virtues. We have been raised to believe that our own desires are the only goals we need. But it is not so. We have been taught that all desires can come true. But that is a lie. Our unachievable quest for constant gratification becomes a mere flight from pain that is as unrealistic as it is useless. That flight can go only into a dead end. Contrary to what our mentors, either at home or on the boob tube, have said, there is no happiness without responsibility, and there is no responsibility without pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt follows, then, that before we can do anything constructive, we must rid ourselves of certain mental preconditioning bequeathed to us by the factors mentioned above. Of all the generations ever spawned in this land of the free and home of the brave, ours has been the most nourished by lies. Falsehood throbs, pumps, and flows through our thought. Getting everything we want will make us happy. Sex will make us happy. Drugs will make us happy. We alone can determine what is right for us. If only we push hard enough, total freedom and total indulgence will bring total joy. We have been sold a bill of spoiled goods, and for lack of learning, wisdom, or age, we have bought them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut we can only get so close to another person, and no further. As we were created for loving union with our Creator, it follows that union is the unconscious model for all of our relationships. In the Eucharist, that real and total union we hunger for occurs, and fills us with life. The lack of that union is eternal death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf we, the youth of today, can congratulate ourselves on our superior intelligence, we may also think about our greater indifference. If a hostile government persecuted the Church in America, would we drop all our hopes of career, family, and rush off to the barricades? Would an American counterpart of the Mexican Cristero or the Austrian Heimwehr spring up, vowed to save Catholicism or die in the attempt? Would we be like the brave Knights of Gondor, who rode against Sauron’s legions to defend Minas Tirith, despite certain defeat? Prudence and insight often conceal a tepid, weak heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf we wish to free our Church and our country from the evil ideas and the evil men who enslave them, we must first become people of prayer. Otherwise, it would merely be a case of substituting one set of scoundrels for another, of corrupt young fools for corrupt old fools. Are not most (if not all) political revolutions like that? The only method of avoiding becoming the mirror images of the enemy is that of prayer, penance, and humility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeware, however, of theologians who try to “interpret, nuance, or rethink,” infallible statements. Had Pope or Council meant something different from what they clearly said, they would have said something else. Often this “nuancing” is done to remove uncomfortable doctrine. But if the doctrine is uncomfortable, it is the theologian who must be “nuanced.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Charles A. 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Like any couple whom God has joined together, Church and state can never be divorced. No matter how many fictitious decrees are handed down by the court of domestic relations, they are still married. And that precisely, is what causes all the trouble.   This book covers a range of topics including Joan of Arc, Louis XVI, the political dimension of the sacred heart dimension, and of course Americanism. 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With Adam in his power, everything over which Adam had been given dominion would naturally fall under his exquisite satanic control, to rearrange and govern as he saw fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Perfecter and Re-creator of the Universe, Satan would build on earth the Utopia he had failed to establish on high. His savage thirst for empire would be slaked, for naturally he expected that Adam, with the shamefaced Eve at his side, would become his terrestrial ally in the Great Revolution he had started in heaven. But this never happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike Eve, Adam “was not deceived” (\u003cem\u003e1 Tim. 2:14\u003c\/em\u003e). First he hid, then he blamed his wife, but in the end our good father repented. Because even in his fallen state he was still head of the human family, he earned a second chance not only for himself, but for all of us. 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It is all of those things, and much more. Leon Gautier, the author of this magnificent book, describes it thusly: “Chivalry is the Christian form of the military profession: the knight is the Christian soldier.” In a word, it is militant Christianity. But this is neither a religion confined to Sunday worship, nor a profession restricted to barracks; nor yet are the religion and the profession at all separate from each other. It is the armed defense of the unarmed Truth. In his work, Gautier leaves no stone unturned, covering every aspect of the knight: his birth, education, marriage, everyday life, battle, and death. He also dedicates several chapters to the code of chivalry, which serves as the ten commandments of knighthood. Let Gautier take you back to a time when Christians had to defend all that they hold dear: their families, their property, their country, and their Faith. \u003cspan\u003eForeword by Charles A. Coulombe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0545\/7101\/files\/chivalry_sample.pdf?16092476173951151082\"\u003eRead the First Chapter Now\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eVideo\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yM1CVuI5-ho\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePreface\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOUR first intention was to give this volume the more expanded title of \u003cem\u003eChivalry, according to the Epic Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, but we have been compelled to consult so many other authorities that we feel obliged to adopt a more general and shorter title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Epic Poems (\u003cem\u003eChansons de Geste\u003c\/em\u003e) do not the less remain as the principal and the best of all our sources of information; for in them (in our own opinion) we find the truest pictures of Chivalry itself, and the most exact representations of the days of Chivalry. The authors of these popular poems, whose sincerity is unquestionable, only depicted what they actually witnessed. No other writers have so minutely described the costumes, armor, habitations, furniture, the private lives and the manners of the Feudal nobility. Good judges are not easily deceived. There is perhaps not a page of the admirable Glossary of Ducange, or of the Memoirs of Saint Palaye, which does not bear witness to the truthfulness of our songs. Nor does Jules Quicherat hold them in less esteem; he declares in round terms that: “their heroes are creations modeled on Feudal seignors.” Viollet le Duc quotes them as frequently as Ducange. They complete the Annals and the Chronicles, filling in lapses, and adding force to the cases recorded. It is, besides, very easy to assure one’s self that the poets spoke the same language as our historians. 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