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Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
Allen Hall is one of only three remaining Roman Catholic seminaries in Britain. In this intimate portrait, we follow Allen Hall's seminarians as they pursue a timetable that swings from the esoteric to the practical - from biblical Greek to lessons on how to live a celibate life - learning that the seminary is no "priest school." Beyond learning the tricks of the priestly trade, the seminarians are preparing to be fundamentally altered as human beings....
3) Caldo de pollo para el alma, vivir la fe Católica: 101 historias para compartir esperanza, fe y amor
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
These 101 positive powerful stories from Catholics of all ages will offer hope, deepen faith, and spread love. Vivir la fe católica is not only a book about "living the faith" but also about a faith that is living. Whether you are a cradle Catholic or a convert; lay, clergy, or religious; simply curious or struggling; these 101 stories will deepen your faith and hope in God. A great gift for Confirmation, graduations, weddings, and holidays! People...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set in England, covering the time period from the 1920s through World War II, the story examines the wealthy Flyte family through the eyes of Sebastian Flyte's less wealthy school friend Charles Ryder. The novel is a story of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world.
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Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Father Brown, a short, shabbily dressed Roman Catholic priest, takes on bandits, traitors, and killers. The reason for his success is simple. After years spent in the priesthood, he knows human nature, and is not afraid of its dark side. He understands the criminal mind and the motivation behind it.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. Early one morning in the summer of 2014, the past pays a call to collect. The FBI arrives to question her about a man from Iraq--a Chaldean Christian from Mosul--where ISIS has just seized control. Sammy Fakhouri, they say, is his name and they have taken him into custody, picked up on his way to her house. Why is Sammy looking for Susan all these years later? And why is Mrs. Ford lying?
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 172
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea-sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires...
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English
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Fatima, Portugal, 1917. The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000. When revealed, its quizzical tone and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful wondering if the Church has truly unveiled all of the Virgin Mary's words or if a message far more important has...
20) Cradle and all
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English
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In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming. Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to...
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