Biographies
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The Proving Grounds: A Catholic on Ladder 17
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$18.95A moving and insightful memoir of a rookie firefighter who struggles to overcome the challenges of his dangerous job while growing in his Catholic faith. It fills a literary gap today as it deals with life in the emergency services from a singularly...$18.95 -
Prayers for Catholic Men
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$17.95This is a simple, comprehensive guide for men seeking to grow daily in their relationship with Our Lord Jesus Christ. It introduces men to the rhythm of prayer throughout their entire day - from the moment they wake to their last conscious thought...$17.95 -
Turning Points: How Thirteen Remarkable Men and Women Heard God’s Call and Responded to It
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$17.95This book examines how thirteen extraordinary men and women from apostolic times to the present—most of them canonized saints—came to see how God wanted them to organize their lives and, seeing that, set out to shape their lives accordingly...$17.95 -
Diary of a Country Priest
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$18.95This acclaimed new English-language translation by Michael Tobin of Georges Bernanos’s classic work is the first fully complete, English-language edition, ever of the original French version. In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly...$18.95 -
Not Just Spiritual
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$18.95Like many young women of her generation, Christine Flynn never had much use for “organized religion.” But she sure was spiritual. In fact, she considered herself spiritually advanced. Unlike her peers who sat in church pews on Sunday, blindly...$18.95 -
Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion
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$18.95Into the Deep traces one woman's spiritual odyssey from birthright evangelicalism through postmodern feminism and, ultimately, into the Roman Catholic Church. As a college student, Abigail Favale experienced a feminist awakening that reshaped her...$18.95 -
The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family
$18.95In his raw and tender memoir, biographer Kevin Wells pulls readers into the unforgettable story of a parish priest turned hermit, Father Martin Flum, who orchestrated the slow resurrection of his wife, Krista, from the nightmare of her deep wounds...$18.95 -
The Maid of Orleans: The Life and Mysticism of Joan of Arc
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$17.95This acclaimed work on the life and mysticism of Joan of Arc is considered by historians as one of the most convincing, well researched and best written accounts of the Maid of Orleans. Stolpe vividly creates the contemporary situation in France during...$17.95 -
Knight of the Holy Ghost: A Short History of G. K. Chesterton
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$16.95Who was Gilbert Keith Chesterton? A rotund man in a cape brandishing a walking stick? Certainly. A twentieth-century writer? Prolifically. A great champion and defender of the Christian Faith? Gallantly. He is known too as the "prince of paradox" and an...$16.95 -
The Grunt Padre
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$15.95This is the definitive biography of Fr. Vincent Robert Capodanno, a chaplain for the Marine Corps during the Vietnam war. Greatly beloved by so many who served under his spiritual care, Fr. Capodanno died on the field of battle giving the last rites to...$15.95 -
The Priest Barracks
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$17.95At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945. The overwhelming majority of the 2,720 men imprisoned in these barracks were Catholics—2,579 priests, monks, and seminarians from all...$17.95 -
To Be a Father with St. Joseph
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$14.95Exploring 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...$14.95