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Living Medjugorje is a pilgrim's companion to the Marian shrine in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the same spirit as the author's guide to Rome, Living the Jubilee. Italian journalist Saverio Gaeta, a former editor at L'Osservatore Romano, explains the history of the site, the places pilgrims visit, and the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith's recent recognition of the spiritual fruits found there, helping visitors approach their pilgrimage with prayer and understanding.

The Second Coming of Christ: Ancient Doctrine and Present Times takes up a question the Church has professed since the Creed: why must Christ come again, and what does it mean for us now? Theologian Françoise Breynaert, who holds a doctorate from the Pontifical Marianum in Rome, sets out the Church's teaching on Christ's return and brings it to bear on present concerns, contrasting Christian hope with the ideologies that promise to save the world through politics, technology, or science alone.

Many believe that deep union with God belongs only to monks, mystics, and consecrated religious. In Divine Intimacy in Marriage: Ascent to Oneness, Dan and Stephanie Burke show that married couples are called to that same intimacy with God, and that marriage itself can be the path that leads them there. Speaking honestly from their own experience of wounds and healing, the Burkes draw on the Church's great spiritual tradition to help couples grow in prayer, communion, and holiness together.

I'm Depressed--Now What?: St. Dymphna's Guide to Building Your Depression Playbook offers a compassionate Catholic approach to living with depression. Catholic therapist Tommy Tighe explains that when we are depressed we can't count on our own minds to find ways to cope, so it helps to build a "playbook" ahead of time. With practical strategies, encouragement to seek support, and the intercession of St. Dymphna, patron of those who suffer from mental illness, he helps readers find a path towa...

The 1970s brought upheaval to the world and to the Church. A Quality of Loss, the debut novel by D. Q. McInerny, finds that upheaval in the quietest of places: the hidden life of a monk living in solitude. Through the journal of Brother Martin, readers watch a contemplative soul try to make sense of the changes sweeping through religious life around him. A thoughtful, interior novel about faith, fidelity, and what endures when much is lost.

Some families flicker for a generation; others shine for centuries. In Not Just for Kings: Cultivating a 500-Year Vision for Your Family, Austin Ruse argues that building a lasting family legacy is not only for royalty and dynasties, but a calling for every Catholic household. Drawing on history, faith, and practical wisdom, he shows how parents can think in generations: handing on the Faith, family stories, traditions, and virtues so that their descendants inherit something that endures.

God's Mighty Little Missionary: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Mother Maria Stieren tells the story of a German-born sister who walked into an abandoned church in the Tanzanian desert with a little pocket change, a breviary, and an unshakable conviction that God had sent her there. Born in Munich in 1923, Mother Maria grew up under Nazism, entered religious life, and went on to build a thriving mission in East Africa through radical trust in Providence and love of the Cross. Journalist ...

Cycle Syncing Your Prayer Life: A Guide for Catholic Women helps women understand how the natural rhythms of their bodies affect energy, focus, and mood, and how to shape a prayer life that works with those rhythms rather than against them. Elizabeth Tomasek, who serves in Campus Ministry at the University of Notre Dame, offers practical, faith-filled ideas for praying through every phase of the month, rooted in a Catholic understanding of the body as God's good gift.

In Never Again? Never Gone!: Old and New Anti-Semitism, historian Michael Wolffsohn examines the reactions to the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, and the troubling resurgence of anti-Semitism that followed. Longtime professor of modern history in Munich, Wolffsohn traces the continuity between old and new forms of hatred against the Jewish people and challenges political leaders who insist it has no place in society while failing to confront it. A short, forceful book.

Alexandre Kojève, best known for his lectures on Hegel, turns here to a question that sits at the meeting point of physics and philosophy: what does it mean to say the world is determined?Written in the wake of the quantum revolution, this study traces the idea of determinism from classical mechanics through statistical and quantum physics, and asks what each stage implies for causality, knowledge and human freedom.A demanding but rewarding book for readers interested in the philosophy of sci...

Zbigniew Janowski, a scholar of Descartes and of modern political thought, examines how a tradition that once prized open debate and freedom of conscience has come to tolerate less and less disagreement.Drawing on his experience of life under communism, he traces the intellectual roots of today's pressures toward conformity and makes a case for the freedoms of thought and speech on which a healthy culture depends. The history of liberal ideas of liberty Conformity and freedom of conscience to...

A short, clear book of reflections on moral and political philosophy that deliberately takes the side of inherited wisdom. The author argues that the most reliable guides to justice and the good life are not new theories but the long tradition of classical and Christian thought.Accessible to the general reader and useful for students, it is an invitation to think with the tradition rather than against it. Why tradition is a source of moral knowledge Classical and Christian foundations of just...

Is a free people defined by the rights it holds, or by its capacity to govern itself? This thoughtful essay weighs the two ideas that run through the American political tradition and asks what happens when one crowds out the other.Drawing on the founders and on classical political philosophy, the author makes the case for recovering the habits and virtues that self-government requires. Two ideas of liberty in the American founding The virtues self-government depends on Recovering civic respon...

Jacques Maritain was among the Catholic thinkers most closely involved in the drafting of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This study examines how he grounded human rights in natural law and in the dignity of the person.The book follows Maritain's thought from his early work through his mature political philosophy, showing how a Thomist account of the person shaped a whole tradition of reflection on rights, the common good and the limits of the state. Maritain's role in the Uni...

John Alvis, a longtime teacher of literature and political philosophy, studies the writers who loved their country enough to hold it to account. From Shakespeare to the American founders and beyond, these authors combined devotion to their homeland with a clear view of its failings.The result is a rich reflection on what mature patriotism looks like: grateful, honest, and ordered to justice. Patriotism in literature and political thought Loyalty joined to moral judgment Close readings of majo...

Beauty was once named alongside truth and goodness as one of the marks of being. This study asks how that conviction was lost in modern thought and how it might be recovered.Drawing on classical and Christian sources, the author shows why beauty matters not only for art but for faith, moral life and our understanding of the world. Beauty as a transcendental in classical and Christian thought How modern philosophy set beauty aside Recovering beauty for faith and culture

Western Civilization: An IntroductionA brief, readable introduction to the civilization shaped by Jerusalem, Athens and Rome. In about a hundred pages it sketches the major ideas, events and institutions that formed the West, from the ancient world through the Christian centuries to the modern age.Well suited for students, homeschool families and anyone who wants a clear overview before going deeper. Faith, reason and law as the West's foundations Key turning points in a compact survey A star...

Digital technology has changed how we speak, listen and relate to one another. Fr. Cristian Mendoza, who teaches institutional communication in Rome, examines what this means for persons, families and the Church.Neither alarmist nor naive, the book offers a framework for using digital media in ways that respect human dignity and serve truth and genuine community. How digital media reshape communication The person and community online Guidance for families and Church institutions

Fulton Sheen: God's Great Communicator (Vision Books) A new title in Ignatius Press's beloved Vision Books series, this biography introduces young readers to Fulton J. Sheen, the Illinois farm boy who grew up to become the best-known Catholic bishop in twentieth-century America. Readers follow Sheen from the classroom to the radio microphone and the television studio, where his program Life Is Worth Living reached millions. Along the way they discover the real source of his gifts: a deep love...

The Promises of Christ In an age of comfort and technology, many people, especially the young, still wrestle with discouragement and hopelessness. Fr. Milton Walsh points to a sure remedy: the promises Jesus Christ makes to us in the Gospels. Walsh invites readers to take Our Lord at His word, slowing down over ten of His promises that familiarity can dull. He speaks both to those who think the promises sound too good to be true and to those who feel too unworthy to receive them, reminding us...

Not to Caesar but to Peter: Why the Catholic Church is a Perfect Society The Church has long understood herself as a "perfect society," complete and self-sufficient in her own order, with real authority of her own. In Not to Caesar but to Peter, religious-liberty lawyer William J. Haun shows how recovering this traditional teaching can give religious freedom a firmer footing in American law. Haun argues that when the Church remembers who she is, she can better protect her institutions and com...

Father Paul of Moll Father Paul of Moll, born Francis Luyckx, was a nineteenth-century Flemish Benedictine whose humility and prayer earned him a reputation as a wonderworker. Though he longed for a hidden monastic life, he was entrusted with founding the monastery of Steenbrugge and restoring the ancient Abbey of Afflighem. This classic account gathers the testimony of friends and contemporaries who knew him: his tireless care for the poor, his gift of reading souls, and the many healings at...

Fulton J. Sheen: The Life and Legacy of America's Bishop Blessed Fulton J. Sheen is remembered as the warm, smiling host of Life Is Worth Living, but he was also a scholar, a missionary leader, a prolific author, and a priest of deep prayer. In this full-length biography, Fr. Ray Atwood looks past the television persona to the interior life that sustained him. Drawing on archival research and Sheen's own vast body of writing, Atwood follows him from his Midwestern boyhood through his pioneeri...

Enduring the Sword of Suffering: A Consecration to the Seven Sorrows of Mary Suffering is not meaningless; it can be the very place where God meets us. Dr. Joseph Hollcraft and Ruth Berghorst invite readers to find companionship and renewal through the intercession of Our Lady of Sorrows. Combining personal testimony, history, and an eight-day consecration, the book draws on Dr. Hollcraft's pilgrimage to Auschwitz and the cell of St. Maximilian Kolbe, and on Berghorst's own return to the Chur...

Garden of the Soul: Opening Your Heart to the God Who Heals After suffering two second-trimester miscarriages in a single year, Whitney Flanders took refuge in a small backyard garden. There, in her grief, she began to encounter the Lord in a new way. In this honest spiritual memoir, Flanders shares how years of planting and tending her garden taught her about God's goodness, faithfulness, and mercy, and how the work of a gardener mirrors the slow growth of a soul in grace. A tender and encou...

The Wit & Wisdom of Oscar Wilde: A Treasury of Quotations Few writers in English are as quotable as Oscar Wilde. This treasury gathers hundreds of his best epigrams, aphorisms, and observations from his plays, essays, fiction, letters, and recorded conversation. Wilde turns his sparkling wit to art and morality, society and politics, love and marriage, and much else. Beneath the paradoxes lies a surprising wisdom about human nature that still rings true today. A delightful book to dip int...

The Way of a Pilgrim First published in Russia in 1884, The Way of a Pilgrim is a much-loved classic of Christian prayer. Its anonymous narrator, a wandering pilgrim, hears St. Paul's command to "pray without ceasing" and sets out across Russia to learn how it can be done. Through his conversations along the road, the book opens up the tradition of the Jesus Prayer and the life of interior, continual prayer. The true identity of its author remains a mystery, which only adds to the book's quie...

Ineffable: Learning to Love the God Beyond Words When faith starts to feel routine, faithful but distant, God is inviting us deeper. Allison Auth writes for those who long for real intimacy with the Lord but quietly doubt that they are worthy of His love. Speaking simply and openly from her own life, and especially to busy mothers and fathers, Auth shows that union with God is not only for saints and mystics. It is the calling of every Christian, chosen and loved by God from all eternity. A h...

Angel of God: Devotion to the Guardian Angels for Children Every child has a guardian angel who has been at his side since before he was born. This beautifully illustrated book helps children get to know this faithful heavenly friend. Using Scripture and the experiences of the saints, Patrick O'Hearn explains the many ways guardian angels watch over us, guide us, and help us on the road to Heaven. Full-color illustrations by Valerie Delgado bring each page to life. A lovely hardcover for fami...

A Spacious Place: A Spiritual Journey with St. Edith Stein Our culture tells us that truth is relative, that freedom means doing as we please, and that a life given for others is narrow and stifling. St. Edith Stein's life tells a very different story. Claire Dwyer walks with this brilliant philosopher, a convert from a Jewish family who became a Carmelite nun and was martyred at Auschwitz. Through her story, Dwyer invites readers to discover the love, truth, identity, and deep interior freed...

The Forgotten Virtue: Why Meekness May Be the Secret Weapon in the Spiritual Life Meekness is not weakness, and it is not passivity. As Fr. Lawrence Carney shows, it is a fruit of charity closely bound to humility, and a powerful weapon in the spiritual life that we often overlook. Drawing on the saints, including St. Louis de Montfort, Fr. Carney explains how meekness can win souls for Christ and bring peace to a troubled heart. For anyone who struggles with ego, impatience, or lingering res...

Sanctify Your Day: A Structure to Live an Intentional, Healthy, and Holy Life Many of us want to grow in holiness, but our days feel scattered between work, family, fatigue, and constant distraction. Chase Crouse offers a clear, practical plan for ordering an ordinary day toward God. Rooted in the Church's ascetical tradition and its wisdom on virtue, the book covers prayer, work, rest, health, and relationships, showing how each part of daily routine can become an offering to the Lord. A pra...

Moses A baby in a basket, a prince in a palace, a hero chosen by God: the story of Moses is one of the great adventures of Scripture. With vivid storytelling and the rich, glowing artwork of beloved illustrator Brian Wildsmith, this picture book follows Moses from the reeds of the Nile to the court of Pharaoh, the burning bush, and the journey of God's people to freedom. A beautiful hardcover retelling of Exodus that helps young readers learn to trust God, even when they are afraid. Details: ...

The Marriage Gap: How to Understand, Communicate, and Meet Your Spouse's Four Deepest Needs Couples rarely drift apart because they stop caring; more often they stop understanding one another. Devin and Kim Schadt offer a practical framework for building, or rebuilding, the closeness a marriage is meant to have. Built around four complementary needs of husbands and wives, the book unfolds through eight candid conversations between the Schadts, enriched by interviews with Catholic couples from...

The Mystery of Christ Our Savior: The Person, Life, and Redemption of Jesus According to St. Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas gave the Church one of her richest visions of Jesus Christ, yet many Catholics find the Summa Theologiae daunting. Fr. Mauro Gagliardi opens up Aquinas's teaching on Christ and our salvation in a form that is faithful, readable, and spiritually fruitful. Drawing directly from the Summa, Fr. Gagliardi presents Christ not as an abstract subject of debate but as the Word...

Examination of Conscience of Moral Theology Many of us think of moral theology as lists of what is allowed and what is forbidden. Fr. Wojciech Giertych, O.P., longtime Theologian of the Papal Household, proposes a far more beautiful approach. Drawing on St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John Paul II, he presents Christian morality as God's fatherly plan of love: an invitation to use our gifts and opportunities with maturity and charity, and so to grow in union with Him. A clear and uplifting book fo...

The Lament of the Dove: On the Value of Tears Here for the first time in English is St. Robert Bellarmine's De Gemitu Columbae, translated by Ryan Grant with a foreword by Msgr. Charles Pope. The great Doctor of the Church calls every member of the faithful, lay, religious, and clergy alike, to weep for sin and to rejoice with Christ and the saints. Grounding penance in Scripture, Bellarmine explores the sources of holy tears in twelve chapters, from the fall of the angels and the failings of...

My Days Are in Your Hands: Men and Women in the Footsteps of Jesus What story will you write with the remaining pages of your life? Cardinal Fernando Filoni places that question at the heart of this reflective book. Walking through the lives of great saints and biblical figures, the Cardinal shows men and women who faced fear, doubt, and failure, yet gave everything to God and found the deepest consolation in surrender to Him. They are not distant figures in stained glass but friends and witn...

Restore: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer and Meditation, Second Edition Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT, invites readers to make Lent a season of real healing, turning away from what wounds us and toward the God who restores and makes us whole. This guided journal leads you through the traditional Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in four phases of healing, with daily reflections, prayer prompts, and space to write. Illustrations by Mindi Oaten make it a beautiful companion...

Introduction to Philosophical Principles: Logic, Physics, and the Human Person, Third Edition This introduction sets out the essential principles for any serious philosophical inquiry, making them clear and accessible without watering them down. Brian Kemple organizes the material in three parts: logic, physics, and the human person, covering our encounter with thought, with the world, and with the meeting of the two. Drawing on Thomism, semiotics, and phenomenology, the book aims less at sur...