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    Karol Wojtyla, before becoming Pope John Paul II, offers a profound defense of Catholic views on family and sexuality, contrasting personalistic and utilitarian perspectives.

    Love & Responsibility

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    Drawing from his own pastoral experience as a priest and bishop before he became Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla has produced a remarkably eloquent and resourceful defense of Catholic tradition in the sphere of family life and sexual morality. He writes...
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    A Song for Nagasaki chronicles Takashi Nagai's journey from Shintoism to Catholicism amidst post-atomic Nagasaki, from Ignatius Press.

    A Song for Nagasaki

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    On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye, while fatally injuring and poisoning thousands more. Among the survivors was Takashi Nagai, a pioneer in radiology...
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    In "How Saints Die," Antonio Maria Sicari reveals the profound joy in saints' final moments, offering insight and consolation from Ignatius Press.

    How Saints Die: 100 Stories of Hope

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    Italian 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...
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    To Be a Father with St. Joseph

    To Be a Father with St. Joseph

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    Exploring Scripture and Tradition in his energetic and poetic style, Hadjadj offers a fresh and beautiful meditation on Saint Joseph, his life with Jesus and Mary, and his exceptional fatherhood. In twelve profound and often humorous chapters, Hadjadj...
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    The Music of Christendom: A History

    The Music of Christendom: A History

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    Music plays such an important part in everyone's life but how much do we know about the history of music? How did music shape our civilization and how was music itself shaped by the Catholic Church? Susan Treacy, an experienced professor of music, is an...
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    The Lost Mandate of Heaven

    The Lost Mandate of Heaven

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    Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam, possessed the Confucian "Mandate of Heaven", a moral and political authority that was widely recognized by all Vietnamese. This devout Roman Catholic leader never lost this mandate in the...
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    Explore Saint John of the Cross, the Mystical Doctor of contemplative prayer, in Father Donald Haggerty's insightful guidebook.

    Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation

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    Saint John of the Cross is the Church's premier teacher on contemplative prayer. Catholic tradition even calls him the Mystical Doctor. The sixteenth-century Carmelite priest not only wrote four massive treatises on the spiritual life, along with some of...
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