Encyclopedia of Catholicism

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In about 700 A-to-Z entries, "Encyclopedia of Catholicism" explores a 2,000-year-old religion that has more than 1 billion followers worldwide. Examining its origins and history, this reference also highlights issues the Church currently faces, such as its inculturation in non-European societies, the status of women, and the struggles over sexuality, abortion, euthanasia, and the environment. Coverage includes key people, movements, institutions, practices, and doctrines of this influential religion. This informative encyclopedia also features photographs, a comprehensive introduction that provides an overview of the tradition, a list of popes and antipopes, an extensive chronology, a bibliography, and an index. Entries include: Abbess/abbot, Anti-Semitism, Apocalypse, Baptism, Benedict XVI, Canon, Charismatic renewal, Dorothy Day, Death and dying, Donatism, Meister Eckhart, Ecotheology, France, Galileo Galilei, Greek Catholic Church, Holy Roman Empire, Holy Spirit, Investiture Controversy, Knights Templar, Liberation theology, Liturgical music, Opus Dei, Papal bull, Relics, Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, Vatican City, John Wycliffe, and more.

About the Author

Frank K. Flinn is an adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He obtained a B.Div. from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in special religious studies from St. Michael's College, Toronto School of Theology.

Year Published: 2007

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The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism

The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished and experienced Catholic writers.

• Engages its readers in an informed and informative conversation about Roman Catholic life and thought
• Embraces the local and the global, the past and the present, life and the afterlife, and a broad range of institutions and activities
• Considers both what is distinctive about Catholic life and thought, and how Catholicism overlaps with and transforms other ways of thinking and living
• Topics covered include: peacemaking, violence and wars; money, the vow of poverty and socio-economic life; art by and about Catholics; and men, women and sex.

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The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice

The American media, usually painstaking in their efforts to offend members of no racial, religious or gender category, consistently make one major exception-the Roman Catholic Church. So argues Jenkins, professor of history and religion at Penn State and a prolific author whose titles include Pedophiles and Priests and The New Christendom. Though anti-Catholicism arrived with the Pilgrims, only since the 1960s has it been aided by dissenters within the Catholic Church, primarily those who disagree with the church on sexual matters: birth control, feminism, abortion, homosexuality. Citing copious recent examples of anti-Catholicism in public protests, movies, television, publishing, the arts, the news media and academia, Jenkins concludes that offenses against Catholicism, unlike those against, say, Judaism or Islam, are rarely censored and never considered hate crimes. Similarly, historical offenses by Catholics are treated differently from those against Catholics: "If seizing Christian Syria and Palestine by the Muslim sword was acceptable in the seventh century, why was it so atrocious to try to reclaim them with the Christian lance 400 years later?" Jenkins, an Episcopalian, wants evenhanded treatment for all religions, whether through equal respect or equal openness to attack. Liberal Catholics may contend that vigorous dissent helps keep the hierarchy honest; others might argue that the largest American denomination does not need the protections afforded more vulnerable groups. For Jenkins, however, it's about fairness: "One does not make light of black heroes and martyrs, of AIDS or gay-bashing, yet when dealing with Catholics, no subject is off-limits."
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The Secret of Kells (2009)

Finally something for the whole family! This movie, called by some the greatest animation job in the industry's history, about the Book of Kells (which is in reality a Bible Manuscript done by Catholic Monks). There wasn't much press / buzz about this one in the Protestant/Atheist USA as there was in Europe where it's a big hit.

Rated: G

Runtime: 1 hr. 15 min.

Genre: Animation, Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Theatrical Release: Mar 12, 2010 Limited

Synopsis: The animated story of the boy behind the famed Book of Kells.

Starring: Venise du Bois du Roy, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Hourican

Starring: Venise du Bois du Roy, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Hourican

Director: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey

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Alma Mater - Music from the Vatican Featuring the Voice of Pope Benedict XVI

New album features His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, reciting and singing passages and prayers. Alma Mater, Latin for “Nourishing Mother,” was made in honor of the Virgin Mary and features classical music enthusiast Pope Benedict XVI. The album offers a blend of Lauretan Litanies and Marian popular chants with eight original pieces of modern classical music. Thus far, the only other Pontiff to have released an audio CD was Pope John Paul II with Aber Pater in 1999. Vatican Radio provided the Pope’s recordings during official services at Mass, prayers, and speeches made mostly during Marian pilgrimages for use on the album. The Pontiff was recorded in St. Peter’s Basilica singing passages and prayers in Latin, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese, backed up vocally by The Choir of the Philharmonic Academy of Rome conducted by Monsignor Pablo Colino, Maestro Emeritus of St. Peter’s Basilica.

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1. Sancta Dei Genitrix
2. Mater Ecclesiae
3. Advocata Nostra
4. Benedicta Tu
5. Causa Nostrae Laetitiae
6. Auxilium Christianorum
7. Regina Coeli
8. Magistra Nostra

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A History of the Council of Trent, Volume I: The Struggle for the Council

The Council of Trent, delayed and interrupted several times because of political or religious disagreements, was a major reform council and the most impressive embodiment of the ideals of the Counter-Reformation. It would be over 300 years until the next Ecumenical Council. Its teachings continue until today. Pope John XXIII stated that when announcing Vatican II. Pope Paul VI said the same.

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The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, And The Future Of The Church

The Catholic Church in America is in a state of crisis. Yet few understand what the crisis really is, why it happened, or how the Church must respond to it. As no other commentator or critic has done, George Weigel situates the current crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance in the context of recent Catholic history. With honesty and critical rigor, he reveals the Church's failure to embrace the true spiritual promise of Vatican II, a failure that has resulted in the gradual but steady surrender to liberal culture that he dubs "Catholic Lite." Drawing upon his unparalleled knowledge of how the Church works, both in America and in Rome, Weigel exposes the patterns of dissent and self-deception that became entrenched in seminaries, among priests, and ultimately among the bishops who failed their flock by thinking like managers instead of apostles. But, Weigel reminds us, in the Biblical world a "crisis" is a time of great opportunity, an invitation to deeper faith. Every great crisis of the Church's past, from the Dark Ages to the Reformation, has resulted in a period of reform that returned the Church-and its priesthood-to its roots. Weigel sets forth an agenda for genuine reform that challenges seminarians, priests, bishops, and the laity to lead more integrally Catholic lives. As he argues so persuasively, the answer to the present crisis will not be found in "Catholic Lite" but in classic Catholicism: a Catholicism that has reclaimed the wisdom of the past in order to face the corruptions of the present and create a strong future.

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