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How Saints Die: 100 Stories of Hope
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$17.95Italian Carmelite Antonio Maria Sicari's vibrant biographies of saints—from Augustine to Catherine of Siena to Faustina Kowalska—have been read across Europe for decades. In How Saints Die, Sicari turns to the most difficult challenge in the...$17.95 -
The Miracle of Father Kapaun
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$17.95Emil Kapaun—priest, soldier and Korean War hero—was a rare man. He was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award, and is also being considered by the Vatican for canonization as a saint.Just as...$17.95 -
Lepanto
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$14.95Hilaire Belloc called “Lepanto” Chesterton’s greatest poem and the greatest poem of his generation. But not only have English classes neglected this masterpiece of rhyme and meter, History classes have neglected the story of the pivotal...$14.95 -
Church Councils: 100 Questions and Answers
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$16.95From the days of the apostles, the Church's pastors and teachers have met, when necessary, to defend and explain the Catholic faith. From the "Council of Jerusalem" in the Acts of the Apostles, through the Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Trent, and...$16.95 -
The Man Who Founded California: The Life of Saint Junipero Serra
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$17.95This work is a popular but thorough biography of St. Junipero Serra (1713- 1784), the tireless Franciscan missionary who came to California in the eighteenth century to evangelize the Native Americans. Well known for the historic missions that he helped...$17.95 -
Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War: Stories of Martyrdom from Mexico
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$17.95This provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal players. The saints are now honored as martyrs by the Catholic Church, and the sinners were political and military...$17.95 -
The Man Who Left His Mark: How Mark's Gospel Answers Modern Questions
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$15.95In this unusual book on the Gospel of Mark, the brilliant and prolific Peter Kreeft presents 252 contemporary questions that modern man asks about every aspect of the meaning of life, faith, love, suffering, friendship, death, eternity, God, Jesus and...$15.95 -
The Desert Fathers: Saint Anthony and the Beginnings of Monasticism
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$16.95In the late third century, more and more people withdrew to the radical seclusion of the desert so as to live entirely for God under the direction of a spiritual father. Among these "Desert Fathers" one figure is especially preeminent: Saint Anthony the...$16.95 -
Pray. Think. Act.: Make Better Decisions with the Desert Fathers
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$17.95Father Augustine Wetta reaches back into monastic history to answer one of the most critical questions facing young people today: "How do I make up my mind?" With his characteristic wit and novel approach to classical art, Father Augustine looks to the...$17.95 -
Padre Pio: Stories and Memories of My Mentor and Friend
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$16.95This colorful memoir offers a rare, up-close glimpse of the life and personality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, the beloved Italian monk who was blessed with extraordinary gifts.The late Fr. Amorth—well-known as an exorcist —enjoyed over two...$16.95 -
Christianity, Islam and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West
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$17.95For many Americans the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was the first time they had considered Islam. Were the terrorists motivated by the true dictates of their religion, or had they hijacked Islam as well as the planes in a...$17.95 -
Characters of the Reformation
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$15.95In one of his most fascinating books, Anglo-French writer Hilaire Belloc presents in bold colors the twenty-three principal characters of the Protestant Reformation. He focuses primarily on those figures who changed the course of English history,...$15.95