The Birth of Jesus According to the Gospels

Joseph F. Kelly

In his previous book The Origins of Christmas, Joseph F. Kelly answers common questions about the development of Christmas rituals and legends, and explores the history of the holiday. In this book Kelly turns to the infancy narratives to see what th See More >>

The Carmelite Tradition

Steven Payne, OCD; Phyllis Zagano, Series Editor

Eight hundred years ago Albert of Jerusalem gave the hermit-penitents of Mount Carmel a way of life to follow. Since then, this rule has inspired and formed mystics and scholars, men and women, lay and ordained to seek the living God. In The Carmelit See More >>

The Courage of Faith

Some Philosophical Reflections

Steven T. Ostovich, PhD

Living a courageous life is not easy. It requires a person to find the balance between fearlessness and cowardice. In The Courage of Faith Steven Ostovich encourages readers to wrestle with their questions of belief in order to find a way to choose f See More >>

The Crucifixion

Luke 23

Donald Jackson

Rendered in raised and burnished gold, the crucified figure of Christ dominates this composition. The use of gold conveys the idea of God manifesting himself in His divine love for humanity, represented by the crowd below. Luke’s gospel recounts that See More >>

The Long Dark Winter's Night

Reflections of a Priest in a Time of Pain and Privilege

Patrick Bergquist

Before Father Patrick Bergquist moved to Alaska, he imagined himself spending his free evenings wrapped in a warm quilt, reading novel after novel during the long arctic winters. Those idealized expectations were met with the unavoidable reality of w See More >>

The Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity

Paul F. Bradshaw and Maxwell E. Johnson

The liturgical year is a relatively modern invention. The term itself only came into use in the late sixteenth century. In antiquity, Christians did not view the various festivals and fasts that they experienced as a unified whole. Instead, the diffe See More >>

The Power of Images in Paul

Raymond F. Collins, STD

In his letters to the early Christian communities, the apostle Paul left for Christians of all time an array of powerful images: from the pain of a thorn in the flesh to the tenderness of a nursing mother for her children, from the competition on an See More >>

The Radical Christian Life

A Year with Saint Benedict

Joan Chittister, OSB

Very little in this world stays fresh and life-giving for 1,500 years. But when that happens we should ask ourselves why and what that had to do with us. In this book, The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict, Joan Chittister encou See More >>

The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick

Lizette Larson-Miller

2006 Catholic Press Association Award Winner! The ritual Pastoral Care of the Sick offers the church a wealth of assistance in visiting and praying with the sick, in facilitating services of Communion, and in tailoring the sacramental rites of anoin See More >>

The Saint John's Bible

An Introduction

The beauty and craftsmanship of The Saint John's Bible has inspired people from the beginning of the process nearly ten years ago. Thousands have seen the pages firsthand in traveling exhibits or on location at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at See More >>

2 Kings 2:9 - 2:25 Print (18 x 26)

2 Kings 2:1-14

Artists: Donald Jackson, in collaboration with Aidan Hart

In this illumination Elisha is straining upward as Elijah is carried away in a fiery chariot. Elijah's arms stretch in two directions; one toward his Heavenly Father and the other earthwards as he drops his mantle to his successor, passing on the gif See More >>

2 Samuel - 16 Print (18 x 26)

1 Samuel 16 - 2 Samuel 24

Artist: Donald Jackson

This abstract depiction of Jerusalem, a city made holy by David's placing of the tented ark within it, is filled with many arches and alleyways through which the eye is invited to wander upwards toward gilded domes and beyond to the natural world and See More >>

A Commentary on the General Instruction
of the Roman Missal

Edward Foley, Nathan D. Mitchell, and Joanne M. Pierce, Editors; Foreword by Bishop Donald W. Trautman

2008 Catholic Press Association Award Winner! The 2002 Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (IGMR) comes at an important moment in the history of Roman Catholicism. The Church has come through the dramatic reforms of Vatican II and more than a genera See More >>

A Costly Freedom

A Theological Reading of Mark's Gospel

Brendan Byrne, SJ

With this study of the Gospel of Mark, Brendan Byrne completes his trilogy of works on the Synoptic Gospels. Mark, the "Cinderella gospel," as Byrne says, languished for millennia in the shadow of Matthew ("the first gospel") and Luke. Beginning in t See More >>

A New Friendship

The Spirituality and Ministry of the Deacon

Monsignor Edward Buelt;
Foreword by the Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput

"What is a deacon?" "What does a deacon do?" These are two questions pastors, parishioners, and even deacons themselves often ask.In A New Friendship Monsignor Edward Buelt answers these questions through an engaging conversation with the Scriptures, See More >>