National Geographic: Inside the Vatican (DVDRip)

Quick note on this release... This is not the version which is usually floating around on torrent sites (which is around 739MB). This is a higher quality DVDRip and weighs in at nearly 2GB.

Synopsis: The Vatican may be one of the most famous places in the world, but it’s also among the most mysterious; very few people have seen what lies beyond the Vatican’s walls,

and even fewer journalists have had free access to the tiny walled city that is the home of the Catholic Church. In 2001, National Geographic was given permission to enter the Vatican with a camera crew, and National Geographic: Inside The Vatican examines the city’s 2000 years of history, as well as documenting the Vatican’s historical archives and documenting private chapels which had never before been photographed to viewing by the public. Martin Sheen serves as host and narrator.

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Senses of Tradition: Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith

Oxford University Press | English | 2000-09-21 | ISBN: 0195137264 | 264 pages | PDF | 14,8 MB

This book articulates a theory of Catholic tradition that departs from previous understandings. Drawing on the medieval concept of the four-fold sense of scripture, John Thiel proposes four interpretive senses of tradition. He also offers a theory of doctrinal development that reconciles Catholic belief in apostolic authority and continuity of tradition with a critical approach to the evidence of history.

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Bonus: Catholic e-Sword Arsenal

I've decided to go ahead and post a link to my other page containing a vast amount of Catholic e-Sword modules, including but not limited to:

• The Haydock Commentary
• The Lapide Commentary
• The RSV-CE
• The NAB
• The KJV 1611 (With deuterocanon)
• Catholic Dictionary
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Catholic Doctrinal Concordance
• More!

So if you're an e-Sword users and want a truckload of Catholic add-ons FREE CLEAR and in the Public Domain, just head on over to here. Hey! Don't make this a one time stop either. I'm adding to the modules all the time!

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (Audio)

A personal favorite this one... This is an invaluable resource not just for Catholics, but for anyone wanting an objective look at the History of the Church and it's relationship with science, and the advance of western civilization in many, many other areas. A whopping 7 hours of audio. This is an absolute must have. PDF version when I locate it again. For now, enjoy this abook.

Title: How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

Author: Thomas E Woods

Type: Audiobook Unabridged

Time: 7 Hrs, 0 min

Format: MP3

Synopsis: Ask a college student today what he knows about the Catholic Church and his answer might come down to one word: "corruption." But that one word should be "civilization." Western civilization has given us the miracles of modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of the rule of law, a unique sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, a philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts that we take for granted as the wealthiest and most powerful civilization in history. But what is the ultimate source of these gifts? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church.

Woods s story goes far beyond the familiar tale of monks copying manuscripts and preserving the wisdom of classical antiquity. In How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, you ll learn: Why modern science was born in the Catholic Church How Catholic priests developed the idea of free-market economics five hundred years before Adam Smith How the Catholic Church invented the university Why what you know about the Galileo affair is wrong How Western law grew out of Church canon law How the Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization is essential reading for recovering this lost truth.

Poster's Notes: Not really a subject I agree with wholly, so not surprisingly I found it a bit overstated, misleading (in areas), and wholly ignoring of the political and sociological repressions and limitations that accompanied the 'blessings' of mother church... in fact, there are a number of items credited here that one can make the argument for having occured 'despite' the church. When you are the biggest money in town... most innovators end up under your auspices whether they want to or not... look at everything the government takes credit for having produced...

Notwithstanding the above, it's an interesting read, and does outline many of the good works sponsored by the church. It also does a good job of identifying and time-lining many of the key improvements that led to the rise of Western Civilization.

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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)

Rated: G

Runtime: 2 hr. 40 min.

Genre: Special Interest, Faith & Spirituality, Drama, Classics

Theatrical Release: Jan 1, 1968 Wide

Synopsis: Kiril Lakota, a Russian priest, has spent years languishing in a Siberian prison camp for his religious convictions.

Starring: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen

Starring: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, John Gielgud, Barbara Jefford, Rosemarie Dexter, Burt Kwouk, Arnoldo Foà, Paul Rogers, George Pravda, Peter Copley, Frank Finlay, John Frederick, Gerald Harper, Arthur Howard, Oskar Ikemer, Niall MacGinnis, Marne Maitland, Isa Miranda, Clive Revill, Jean Rougeul, Leopoldo Trieste, Al Thomas

Director: Michael Anderson

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Catholicism and Science

Greenwood Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0313331901 | 272 pages | PDF | 4,2 MB

When most people think about Catholicism and science, they will automatically think of one of the famous events in the history of science - the condemnation of Galileo by the Roman Catholic Church. But the interaction of Catholics with science has been - and is - far more complex and positive than that depicted in the legend of the Galileo affair. Understanding the natural world has always been a strength of Catholic thought and research - from the great theologians of the Middle Ages to the present day - and science has been a hallmark of Catholic education for centuries. Catholicism and Science, a volume in the Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion series, covers all aspects of the relationship of science and the Church:

- How Catholics interacted with the profound changes in the physical sciences ("natural philosophy") and biological sciences ("natural history") during the Scientific Revolution.

- How Catholic scientists reacted to the theory of evolution and their attempts to make evolution compatible with Catholic theology

- The implications of Roman Catholic doctrinal and moral teachings for neuroscientific research, and for investigation into genetics and cloning. The volume includes primary source documents, a glossary and timeline of important events, and an annotated bibliography of the most useful works for further research

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The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Controversies Explored

HarperCollins | 2001 | ISBN: 0066213304, 0060937580, 0852445725, 1439568456 | 208 pages | PDF | 1 MB

What does being a Catholic mean? Is there a distinctively Catholic way of seeing things? What does the Catholic Church teach about the human condition -- about our lives, our loves, and our destiny? In The Truth of Catholicism, best-selling author George Weigel explores these perennial questions through the prism of ten contemporary controversies.

The Catholic Church may be the most controversial institution in the world. Some find its teachings inexplicable, puzzling, even cruel. George Weigel suggests that we look at Catholicism and its controversies from "inside" the convictions that make those controversies not only possible, but necessary The truths of Catholicism then come into clearer focus as affirmations and celebrations of human life and human love, even as they challenge us to imagine a daring future for humanity and for ourselves.

Is Jesus uniquely the savior of the world? Does belief in God limit our freedom? What are we doing when we pray? Is the moral life about rules or about happiness? Doesn't suffering contradict the biblical claim that God is good? How does the Catholic Church think about other Christians and about other great world religions? Are Catholics safe for democracy? What will become of us? In an engaging, accessible style, George Weigel leads us through these and other questions into the truth of Catholicism: the truth about a God passionately in love with his creation, the truth about a love that creates a vast, liberating terrain on which to live a fully human life.

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